Lie Algebras and Applications

• Main Author: Iachello, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 891
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Atoms.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Quantum Physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics.

This course-based primer provides an introduction to Lie algebras and some of their applications to the spectroscopy of molecules, atoms, nuclei and hadrons. In the first part, it concisely presents the basic concepts of Lie algebras, their representations and their invariants. The second part inclu...