Spring 2012-2013 PHYS 515 Group Representations

HW sets are here

Instructor:


Seçkin Kürkcüoğlu

Meeting Times:

Wed:  14:40-17:30,  P422

Text Book:

Wu-Ki Tung, Group Theory in Physics, World Scientific, 1985.

Some Suggested Books:

H. Georgi, Lie Algebras in Particle Physics, Westview Press, 1999.

J. Fuchs and C. Schweigert, Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations, Cambridge University Press, 1997

J.F. Cornwell, Group Theory in Physics, Vol. I and Vol.II, Academic Press


Grading:

HW sets will be assigned fortnightly.


Course Syllabus:

Basic Notions of Group Theory, Finite Groups

Algebras, Lie Algebras, and Lie Groups, general considerations

Representation Theory of Lie Algebras and Lie Groups Classical Lie Groups, SU(N), SO(2N), SO(2N+1)

Roots, Weights, Dynkin Diagrams,

Tensor products of representations,

Enveloping Algebras, Casimir Operators, Tensor Operators and Invariant Tensors

Representations on Function spaces

Lorentz Group

Applications in Physics