Introduction |
Acknowledgments |
General Facts About Groups / 1: |
Review of Definitions |
Examples of Finitep2 / 2: |
Cyclic Group of Order n / 2.1: |
Symmetric Group ©n / 2.2: |
Dihedral Group / 2.3: |
Other Examples / 2.4: |
Examples of Infinite Groups / 3: |
Group Actions and Conjugacy Classes / 4: |
References |
Exercises |
Representations of Finite Groups |
Representations |
General Facts / 1.1: |
Irreducible Representations / 1.2: |
Direct Sum of Representations / 1.3: |
Intertwining Operators and Schur's Lemma / 1.4: |
Characters and Orthogonality Relations |
Functions on a Group, Matrix Coefficients |
Characters of Representations and Orthogonality Relations |
Character Table |
Application to the Decomposition of Representations |
The Regular Representation |
Definition / 3.1: |
Character of the Regular Representation / 3.2: |
Isotypic Decomposition / 3.3: |
Basis of the Vector Space of Class Functions / 3.4: |
Projection Operators |
Induced Representations / 5: |
Geometric Interpretation / 5.1: |
Representations of Compact Groups |
Compact Groups |
Haar Measure |
Representations of Topological Groups and Schur's Lemma |
Coefficients of a Representation |
Intertwining Operators |
Operations on Representations |
Schur's Lemma / 3.5: |
Complete Reducibility / 4.1: |
Orthogonality Relations / 4.2: |
Summary of Chapter 3 |
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras |
Lie Algebras |
Definition and Examples |
Morphisms |
Commutation Relations and Structure Constants |
Real Forms |
Representations of Lie Algebras / 1.5: |
Review of the Exponential Map |
One-Parameter Subgroups of GL(n, K) |
Lie Groups |
The Lie Algebra of a Lie Group |
The Connected Component of the Identity / 6: |
Morphisms of Lie Groups and of Lie Algebras / 7: |
Differential of a Lie Group Morphism / 7.1: |
Differential of a Lie Group Representation / 7.2: |
The Adjoint Representation / 7.3: |
Lie Groups SU(2) and SO(3) |
The Lie Algebras su(2) and so(3) |
Bases of su(2) |
Bases of so(3) |
Bases of s1(2, C) |
The Covering Morphism of SU(2) onto SO(3) |
The Lie Group SO(3) |
The Lie Group SU(2) |
Projection of SU(2) onto SO(3) |
Representations of SU(2) and SO(3) |
Irreducible Representations of s1(2,C) |
The Representations Dj |
The Casimir Operator |
Hermitian Nature of the Operators J3 and J2 |
Representations of SU(2) |
The Representations TP |
Characters of the Representations Dj |
Representations of SO(3) |
Spherical Harmonics |
Review of L2(S2) |
Harmonic Polynomials |
Representations of Groups on Function Spaces |
Spaces of Harmonic Polynomials |
Representations of SO(3) on Spaces of Harmonic Polynomials |
Definition of Spherical Harmonics |
Representations of SO(3) on Spaces of Spherical Harmonics |
Eigenfunctions of the Casimir Operator |
Bases of Spaces of Spherical Harmonics |
Explicit Formulas |
Representations of SU(3) and Quarks / 8: |
Review of s1(n,C), Representations of s1(3,C) and SU(3) |
Review of s l (n, C) |
The Case of s1(3, C) |
The Bases (I3,Y) and (I3,TB) of h |
Representations of sl (3,C) and of SU(3) |
The Adjoint Representation and Roots |
The Fundamental Representation and Its Dual |
The Fundamental Representation |
The Dual of the Fundamental Representation |
Highest Weight of a Finite-Dimensional Representation |
Highest Weight |
Weights as Linear Combinations of the &lamda;i |
Finite-Dimensional Representations and Weights / 4.3: |
Another Example: The Representation 6 / 4.4: |
One More Example: The Representation 10 / 4.5: |
Tensor Products of Representations |
The Eightfold Way |
Baryons (B=1) / 6.1: |
Mesons (B=0) / 6.2: |
Baryon Resonances / 6.3: |
Problems and Solutions |
Restriction of a Representation to a Finite Groups |
The Group O(2) |
Representation of the Dihedral and Quaternion Groups |
Irreducible Representations of SU(2) and of G3 |
Pseudo-unitary and Pseudo-orthogonal Groups |
Irreducible Representations of SU(2)x SU(2) |
Symmetries of Fullerene Molecules |
Matrix Coefficients and Spherical Harmonics / 9: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Introduction |
Acknowledgments |
General Facts About Groups / 1: |
Review of Definitions |
Examples of Finitep2 / 2: |
Cyclic Group of Order n / 2.1: |