Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Preface: the pursuit of symmetries
- 2 Finite groups: an introduction
- 3 Finite groups: representations
- 4 Hilbert spaces
- 5 SU(2)
- 6 SU(3)
- 7 Classification of compact simple Lie algebras
- 8 Lie algebras: representation theory
- 9 Finite groups: the road to simplicity
- 10 Beyond Lie algebras
- 11 The groups of the Standard Model
- 12 Exceptional structures
- Appendix 1 Properties of some finite groups
- Appendix 2 Properties of selected Lie algebras
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 Preface: the pursuit of symmetries
- 2 Finite groups: an introduction
- 3 Finite groups: representations
- 4 Hilbert spaces
- 5 SU(2)
- 6 SU(3)
- 7 Classification of compact simple Lie algebras
- 8 Lie algebras: representation theory
- 9 Finite groups: the road to simplicity
- 10 Beyond Lie algebras
- 11 The groups of the Standard Model
- 12 Exceptional structures
- Appendix 1 Properties of some finite groups
- Appendix 2 Properties of selected Lie algebras
- References
- Index
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- Group TheoryA Physicist's Survey, pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010