1st Edition
Lie Algebras In Particle Physics from Isospin To Unified Theories
By Howard Georgi
Copyright 2000
340 Pages
by
CRC Press
340 Pages
by
CRC Press
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.
WHy Group Theory? -- 1 Finite Groups -- 2 Lie Groups -- 3 SU(2) -- 4 Tentor OPerators -- 5 Isopin -- 6 Roots and Weights -- 7 SU(3) -- 8 Simple Roots -- 9 More SU(3) -- 10 Tentor Methods -- 11 Hypercharge and Strangeness -- 12 Young Tableaux -- 13 SU(N) -- 14 3-D Harmonic Oscillator -- 15 SU(6) and Quark Model -- 16 Color -- 17 Constituent Quarks -- 18 UNifiec THeories and SU(5) -- 19 THe Classical Groups -- 20 The Classification Theorem -- 21 SO(2n+1) and Spinors -- 22 SO(2n+2) Spinors -- 23 SU(3)&SO(2n) -- 24 SO(10) -- 25 Automorphisms -- 26 Sp(2n) -- 27 Odds and Ends -- Epilogue -- Index.
Biography
Howard Georgi
