Book Review: Symmetries, Lie Algebras and Representations. A graduate course for physicists. By Jürgen Fuchs and Christoph Schweigert.

Symmetries, lie algebras and representat

Symmetries, lie algebras and representations: a graduate course for physicists

✍ Jürgen Fuchs, Christoph Schweigert 📂 Library 📅 1997 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 4 MB

This is an introduction to Lie algebras and their applications in physics. First illustrating how Lie algebras arise naturally from symmetries of physical systems, the book then gives a detailed introduction to Lie algebras and their representations, covering the Cartan-Weyl basis, simple and affine