Download or read book Lie Algebras Part 2 written by E.A. de Kerf and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the long awaited follow-up to Lie Algebras, Part I which covered a major part of the theory of Kac-Moody algebras, stressing primarily their mathematical structure. Part II deals mainly with the representations and applications of Lie Algebras and contains many cross references to Part I. The theoretical part largely deals with the representation theory of Lie algebras with a triangular decomposition, of which Kac-Moody algebras and the Virasoro algebra are prime examples. After setting up the general framework of highest weight representations, the book continues to treat topics as the Casimir operator and the Weyl-Kac character formula, which are specific for Kac-Moody algebras. The applications have a wide range. First, the book contains an exposition on the role of finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebras and their representations in the standard and grand unified models of elementary particle physics. A second application is in the realm of soliton equations and their infinite-dimensional symmetry groups and algebras. The book concludes with a chapter on conformal field theory and the importance of the Virasoro and Kac-Moody algebras therein.
Download or read book Introduction to Finite and Infinite Dimensional Lie Super algebras written by Neelacanta Sthanumoorthy and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lie superalgebras are a natural generalization of Lie algebras, having applications in geometry, number theory, gauge field theory, and string theory. Introduction to Finite and Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Superalgebras introduces the theory of Lie superalgebras, their algebras, and their representations. The material covered ranges from basic definitions of Lie groups to the classification of finite-dimensional representations of semi-simple Lie algebras. While discussing all classes of finite and infinite dimensional Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras in terms of their different classes of root systems, the book focuses on Kac-Moody algebras. With numerous exercises and worked examples, it is ideal for graduate courses on Lie groups and Lie algebras. - Discusses the fundamental structure and all root relationships of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras and their finite and infinite dimensional representation theory - Closely describes BKM Lie superalgebras, their different classes of imaginary root systems, their complete classifications, root-supermultiplicities, and related combinatorial identities - Includes numerous tables of the properties of individual Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras - Focuses on Kac-Moody algebras
Download or read book Finite and Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras and Applications in Physics written by Gerard G. A. Bäuerle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lie Algebras of Finite and Affine Type written by Roger William Carter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-27 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough but relaxed mathematical treatment of Lie algebras.
Download or read book Lie Algebras and Applications written by Francesco Iachello and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, designed for advanced graduate students and post-graduate researchers, introduces Lie algebras and some of their applications to the spectroscopy of molecules, atoms, nuclei and hadrons. The book contains many examples that help to elucidate the abstract algebraic definitions. It provides a summary of many formulas of practical interest, such as the eigenvalues of Casimir operators and the dimensions of the representations of all classical Lie algebras.
Download or read book Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics written by Vladimir Dobrev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, Lie Theory is a tool to build mathematical models for physical systems. Recently, the trend is towards geometrisation of the mathematical description of physical systems and objects. A geometric approach to a system yields in general some notion of symmetry which is very helpful in understanding its structure. Geometrisation and symmetries are meant in their broadest sense, i.e., classical geometry, differential geometry, groups and quantum groups, infinite-dimensional (super-)algebras, and their representations. Furthermore, we include the necessary tools from functional analysis and number theory. This is a large interdisciplinary and interrelated field. Samples of these new trends are presented in this volume, based on contributions from the Workshop “Lie Theory and Its Applications in Physics” held near Varna, Bulgaria, in June 2011. This book is suitable for an extensive audience of mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and researchers in the field of Lie Theory.
Download or read book Lie Algebras written by E. A. de Kerf and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory written by J.E. Humphreys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to introduce the reader to the theory of semisimple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, with emphasis on representations. A good knowledge of linear algebra (including eigenvalues, bilinear forms, euclidean spaces, and tensor products of vector spaces) is presupposed, as well as some acquaintance with the methods of abstract algebra. The first four chapters might well be read by a bright undergraduate; however, the remaining three chapters are admittedly a little more demanding. Besides being useful in many parts of mathematics and physics, the theory of semisimple Lie algebras is inherently attractive, combining as it does a certain amount of depth and a satisfying degree of completeness in its basic results. Since Jacobson's book appeared a decade ago, improvements have been made even in the classical parts of the theory. I have tried to incor porate some of them here and to provide easier access to the subject for non-specialists. For the specialist, the following features should be noted: (I) The Jordan-Chevalley decomposition of linear transformations is emphasized, with "toral" subalgebras replacing the more traditional Cartan subalgebras in the semisimple case. (2) The conjugacy theorem for Cartan subalgebras is proved (following D. J. Winter and G. D. Mostow) by elementary Lie algebra methods, avoiding the use of algebraic geometry.
Download or read book A Mathematical Introduction to Conformal Field Theory written by Martin Schottenloher and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I gives a detailed, self-contained and mathematically rigorous exposition of classical conformal symmetry in n dimensions and its quantization in two dimensions. The conformal groups are determined and the appearence of the Virasoro algebra in the context of the quantization of two-dimensional conformal symmetry is explained via the classification of central extensions of Lie algebras and groups. Part II surveys more advanced topics of conformal field theory such as the representation theory of the Virasoro algebra, conformal symmetry within string theory, an axiomatic approach to Euclidean conformally covariant quantum field theory and a mathematical interpretation of the Verlinde formula in the context of moduli spaces of holomorphic vector bundles on a Riemann surface.
Download or read book Symmetries Lie Algebras and Representations written by Jürgen Fuchs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an introduction to Lie algebras and their representations. Lie algebras have many applications in mathematics and physics, and any physicist or applied mathematician must nowadays be well acquainted with them.
Download or read book Group Theory In Physics A Practitioner s Guide written by R Campoamor Strursberg and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The book contains a lot of examples, a lot of non-standard material which is not included in many other books. At the same time the authors manage to avoid numerous cumbersome calculations … It is a great achievement that the authors found a balance.'zbMATHThis book presents the study of symmetry groups in Physics from a practical perspective, i.e. emphasising the explicit methods and algorithms useful for the practitioner and profusely illustrating by examples.The first half reviews the algebraic, geometrical and topological notions underlying the theory of Lie groups, with a review of the representation theory of finite groups. The topic of Lie algebras is revisited from the perspective of realizations, useful for explicit computations within these groups. The second half is devoted to applications in physics, divided into three main parts — the first deals with space-time symmetries, the Wigner method for representations and applications to relativistic wave equations. The study of kinematical algebras and groups illustrates the properties and capabilities of the notions of contractions, central extensions and projective representations. Gauge symmetries and symmetries in Particle Physics are studied in the context of the Standard Model, finishing with a discussion on Grand-Unified Theories.
Download or read book Lie Algebras Theory and Algorithms written by W.A. de Graaf and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-02-04 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the present work is two-fold. Firstly it aims at a giving an account of many existing algorithms for calculating with finite-dimensional Lie algebras. Secondly, the book provides an introduction into the theory of finite-dimensional Lie algebras. These two subject areas are intimately related. First of all, the algorithmic perspective often invites a different approach to the theoretical material than the one taken in various other monographs (e.g., [42], [48], [77], [86]). Indeed, on various occasions the knowledge of certain algorithms allows us to obtain a straightforward proof of theoretical results (we mention the proof of the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem and the proof of Iwasawa's theorem as examples). Also proofs that contain algorithmic constructions are explicitly formulated as algorithms (an example is the isomorphism theorem for semisimple Lie algebras that constructs an isomorphism in case it exists). Secondly, the algorithms can be used to arrive at a better understanding of the theory. Performing the algorithms in concrete examples, calculating with the concepts involved, really brings the theory of life.
Download or read book An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras written by Alexander A. Kirillov and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an introduction to semisimple Lie algebras. It is concise and informal, with numerous exercises and examples.
Download or read book Lie Groups Lie Algebras Cohomology and Some Applications in Physics written by Josi A. de Azcárraga and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-contained introduction to the cohomology theory of Lie groups and some of its applications in physics.
Download or read book Infinite Dimensional And Finite Dimensional Stochastic Equations And Applications In Physics written by Wilfried Grecksch and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains survey articles on various aspects of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs) and their applications in stochastic control theory and in physics.The topics presented in this volume are:This book is intended not only for graduate students in mathematics or physics, but also for mathematicians, mathematical physicists, theoretical physicists, and science researchers interested in the physical applications of the theory of stochastic processes.
Download or read book Lie Algebras In Particle Physics written by Howard Georgi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-05-04 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author convinces that Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington had things a little bit wrong, as least as far as physics is concerned. He explores the theory of groups and Lie algebras and their representations to use group representations as labor-saving tools.
Download or read book The Geometry of Infinite Dimensional Groups written by Boris Khesin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-28 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph gives an overview of various classes of infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their applications in Hamiltonian mechanics, fluid dynamics, integrable systems, gauge theory, and complex geometry. The text includes many exercises and open questions.
