Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Basic Group Theory and Representation Theory
- 2 The Symmetric Group
- 3 Rotations in 2 and 3 Dimensions, SU(2)
- 4 General Theory of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
- 5 Compact Simple Lie Algebras – Classification and Irreducible Representations
- 6 Spinor Representations of the Orthogonal Groups
- 7 Properties of Some Reducible Group Representations, and Systems of Generalised Coherent States
- 8 Structure and Some Properties and Applications of the Groups Sp(2n,ℝ)
- 9 Wigner’s Theorem, Ray Representations and Neutral Elements
- 10 Groups Related to Spacetime
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Basic Group Theory and Representation Theory
- 2 The Symmetric Group
- 3 Rotations in 2 and 3 Dimensions, SU(2)
- 4 General Theory of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
- 5 Compact Simple Lie Algebras – Classification and Irreducible Representations
- 6 Spinor Representations of the Orthogonal Groups
- 7 Properties of Some Reducible Group Representations, and Systems of Generalised Coherent States
- 8 Structure and Some Properties and Applications of the Groups Sp(2n,ℝ)
- 9 Wigner’s Theorem, Ray Representations and Neutral Elements
- 10 Groups Related to Spacetime
- Index
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- Continuous Groups for Physicists , pp. 277 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023