The theory of group representations: By Francis D. Murnaghan by Francis D Murnaghan

By Francis D Murnaghan

Francis D. Murnaghan, a exceptional contributor within the sphere of utilized arithmetic, created this entire creation to the idea of workforce representations. Murnaghan's first-class account of the sphere pioneered and constructed mainly by way of Frobenius, Weyl, and Schur devotes specific realization to the groups—mainly the symmetric team and the rotation group—of primary value for quantum mechanics (especially nuclear physics). simply because teams of matrices are the standard team representations, this paintings is usually a invaluable contribution to the literature on matrices.
The writer areas specific emphasis on such issues because the conception of crew integration, the idea of two-valued or spin representations, the representations of the symmetric team and the research in their direct items, the crystallographic teams, and the Lorentz staff and the concept that of semivectors. different sections conceal teams and matrices, reducibility, staff characters, the alternating staff, linear teams, and the orthogonal group.
This authoritative exposition is of particular curiosity to lecturers and graduate-level scholars of utilized arithmetic, physics, and better algebra.

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By Francis D Murnaghan

Francis D. Murnaghan, a exceptional contributor within the sphere of utilized arithmetic, created this entire creation to the idea of workforce representations. Murnaghan's first-class account of the sphere pioneered and constructed mainly by way of Frobenius, Weyl, and Schur devotes specific realization to the groups—mainly the symmetric team and the rotation group—of primary value for quantum mechanics (especially nuclear physics). simply because teams of matrices are the standard team representations, this paintings is usually a invaluable contribution to the literature on matrices.
The writer areas specific emphasis on such issues because the conception of crew integration, the idea of two-valued or spin representations, the representations of the symmetric team and the research in their direct items, the crystallographic teams, and the Lorentz staff and the concept that of semivectors. different sections conceal teams and matrices, reducibility, staff characters, the alternating staff, linear teams, and the orthogonal group.
This authoritative exposition is of particular curiosity to lecturers and graduate-level scholars of utilized arithmetic, physics, and better algebra.

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