Jin-Quan Chen is the Full Professor of Physics at the Nanjing University. His research fields include nuclear theory and group theory. In 1984, his research on "The Physical Method of Group Representation Theory" won him the National Natural Science Award.

This book introduces systematically the eigenfunction method, a new approach to the group representation theory which was developed by the authors in the 1970's and 1980's in accordance with the concept and method used in quantum mechanics. It covers the applications of the group theory in various branches of physics and quantum chemistry, especially nuclear and molecular physics. Extensive tables and computational methods are presented.

Group Representation Theory for Physicists may serve as a handbook for researchers doing group theory calculations. It is also a good reference book and textbook for undergraduate and graduate students who intend to use group theory in their future research careers.

Contents:

• Elements of Group Theory
• Group Representation Theory
• Representation Theory for Finite Groups
• Representation Theory of the Permutation Group
• Lie Groups
• The Rotation Group
• The Unitary Groups
• The Point Groups
• Applications of Group Theory to Many-Body Systems
• The Space Groups

"This book might be qualified as a valuable supplement to the existing literature dealing with group theory, representation theory, and last but not least, with the application of group-theoretical methods to physical problems."

“These physicists have made this mathematics their own and developed their own way of understanding it. I suspect that we can learn something by reading their take on it all.”