Toronto lectures on physics shlomo sternberg january 3, 2008 contents. We provide the simplest example of a gauge theory, based on the simplest compact one. Group theory for physicists department of mathematical durham. All together, this book is an excellent place to get started in learning to use groups and representations in. Group theory application to the physics of condensed matter. This appendix is a survey of only those topics in group theory that are needed to. Perhaps most importantly, sternberg includes a highly accessible introduction to representation theory near the beginning of the book. The author considers the physical applications and develops mathematical theory in a presentation that is unusually cohesive and wellmotivated. Group theory physics institute of bonn university, theory. Lecture notes for the group theory module of the m. Shlomo sternberg, harvard university, department of mathematics, one oxford street, cambridge, ma 028, usa.
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Shlomo sternberg 1994 group theory and physics cambridge university press. It is thus a subject of interest to both mathematicians and physicists, though they have approached the subject from different viewpoints. Symplectic geometry is very useful for formulating clearly and concisely problems in classical physics and also for understanding the link between classical problems and their quantum counterparts. Sternberg, group theory and physics, cambridge university press. These theories describe the interactions between fermions and the bosons and lie at the heart of the standard model. This book is an excellent introduction to the use of group theory in physics, especially in crystallography, special relativity and particle physics. Publication date 1994 topics group theory, mathematical physics. This book is an introduction to group theory and its application to physics. Sternberg gives us an entree to quantum mechanics through the medium of group theory, probably the best such book since weyls group theory and quantum.
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