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GROUP THEORY IN PHYSICS
Problems and Solutions

by Michael Aivazis (Illinois Inst. of Tech.)

Table of Contents (29k)
Preface (60k)
Chapter 2: Basic Group Theory (501k)

This solutions booklet is a supplement to the text book 'Group Theory in Physics' by Wu-Ki Tung. It will be useful to lecturers and students taking the subject as detailed solutions are given.


Contents:

  • Basic Group Theory
  • Group Representations
  • General Properties of Irreducible Vectors and Operators
  • Representations of the Symmetric Groups
  • One-Dimensional Continuous Groups
  • Rotations in 3-Dimensional Space — The Group SO(3)
  • The Group SU(2) and More About SO(3)
  • Euclidean Groups in Two- and Three-Dimensional Space
  • The Lorentz and Poincaré Groups, and Space-Time Symmetries
  • Space Inversion Invariance
  • Time Reversal Invariance
  • Finite-Dimesional Representations of the Classical Groups


Readership: Graduate and advanced undergraduate students in physics.

124pp Pub. date: Jun 1991
ISBN 978-981-02-0486-0(pbk)
981-02-0486-8(pbk)
US$15 / £11
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