The beauty of mathematics in science : the intellectual path of J Q Chen / edited by D H Feng ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chen, J. Q. (Jin-Quan)

Feng, Da Hsuan, 1945-

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Group theory.

Interacting boson models.

Nuclear physics.

Molecules.

Mathematical physics.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Intellectual path of J Q Chen

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, [2004]

Language Note:

Contributions in English; one in Chinese and English.

Summary:

Colleagues, many of them also friends, celebrate the achievements of Chinese mathematical physicist Jin-Quan Chen (1938-99) by contributing 16 papers on topics that were of special interest to him. Those include the interacting boson model, the dynamical symmetry approach to collective motions in many-body systems, fermion dynamical symmetries and high-temperature superconductors, quantum mechanics on a sphere, irreducible bases in icosahedral groups space and their applications, and algebraic solutions for point groups. A paper by Chen and others, The Physical Method of Group Representation Theory, is presented in English and in Chinese. There is no index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 A Conceptual Review of the New Approach to Group Representation Theory / Fan Wang 1

2 The Interacting Boson Model / P. Van Isacker 9

3 Structure of Nuclei Near the First Order Spherical-Deformed Phase Transition in the Interacting Boson Model / N. V. Zamfir, G. E. Fernandes, R. F. Casten 25

4 Dynamical Symmetry Approach to Collective Motions in Many-Body Systems / Cheng-Li Wu 37

5 Fermion Dynamical Symmetries and High Temperature Superconductors / Mike Guidry 67

6 The Nucleon-Pair Shell Model Truncated to the SD Subspace for Even-Even Nuclei / Yan-an Luo, J. P. Draayer, Feng Pan 87

7 Quantum Mechanics on a Sphere / Joseph N. Ginocchio 107

8 The Method of Symmetrized Bosons / F. Iachello 115

9 The Perturbed Dirac-Coulomb Problem via SO(2,1) Algebra. A Dilemma! / K. T. Hecht 125

10 Continuous Groups and Molecular Electronic Structure / Josef Paldus, Xiangzhu Li 137

11 The Irreducible Tensor Bases of Simple Lie Algebras / H. Z. Sun, D. Ruan 157

12 Irreducible Bases in Icosahedral Group Space and Their Application / Zhong-Qi Ma 179

13 Induction and Subduction Coefficients of Hecke and Coupling and Re-Coupling Coefficients of U[subscript Q] (N) / Feng Pan, J. P. Draayer 195

14 Algebraic Solutions for Point Groups / Jialun Ping 215

15 Physical Method of Group Representation Theory. I. A New Approach to Theory of Finite-Group Representations / Jin-Quan Chen, Fan Wang, Mei-Juan Gao 235

16 Physical Method of Group Representation Theory. I. A New Approach to Theory of Finite-Group Representations (in Chinese) / Jin-Quan Chen, Fan Wang, Mei-Juan Gao 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

"Publications of Jin-Quan Chen: pages 259-266.

ISBN:

9812382364

OCLC:

55797007