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Introduction to continuous symmetries : from space-time to quantum mechanics / Franck Laloë ; translated by Nicole Ostrowsky, Daniel Ostrowsky.
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QC174.17.S9 L35 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laloë, Franck, 1940- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sym̌tries continues. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Symmetry (Physics).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 562 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Weinheim : Wiley-VCH, [2023]
- Contents:
- Symmetry transformations
- Some ideas about group theory
- Introduction to continuous groups and Lie groups
- Induced representations in the state space
- Representations of Galilean and Poincaré groups: mass, spin, and energy
- Construction of state spaces and wave equations
- Rotation group, angular momenta, spinors
- Transformation of observables under rotation
- Internal symmetries, SU(2) and SU(3) groups
- Symmetry breaking
- Appendix: Time reversal.
- Notes:
- Translated from the French.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-558) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9783527414161
- 3527414169
- OCLC:
- 1388635042
- Publisher Number:
- 99996410748
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