عنوان

Theory and applications of the Poincaré group

شابک

9027721416

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9400945582

شابک

9401085269

شابک

9789027721419

شابک

9789400945586

شابک

9789401085267

شماره

b593362

عنوان اصلي

Theory and applications of the Poincaré group

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

by Y.S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Reidel ; Hingham, MA : Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©1986.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

عنوان فروست

Fundamental theories of physics.

متن يادداشت

I: Elements of Group Theory.- 1. Definition of a Group.- 2. Subgroups, Cosets, and Invariant Subgroups.- 3. Equivalence Classes, Orbits, and Little Groups.- 4. Representations and Representation Spaces.- 5. Properties of Matrices.- 6. Schur's Lemma.- 7. Exercises and Problems.- II: Lie Groups and Lie Algebras.- 1. Basic Concepts of Lie Groups.- 2. Basic Theorems Concerning Lie Groups.- 3. Properties of Lie Algebras.- 4. Properties of Lie Groups.- 5. Further Theorems of Lie Groups.- 6. Exercises and Problems.- III: Theory of the Poincare Group.- 1. Group of Lorentz Transformations.- 2. Orbits and Little Groups of the Proper Lorentz Group.- 3. Representations of the Poincare Group.- 4. Lorentz Transformations of Wave Functions.- 5. Lorentz Transformations of Free Fields.- 6. Discrete Symmetry Operations.- 7. Exercises and Problems.- IV: Theory of Spinors.- 1. SL(2, c) as the Covering Group of the Lorentz Group.- 2. Subgroups of SL(2, c).- 3. SU (2).- 4. 5L(2, c) Spinors and Four-Vectors.- 5. Symmetries of the Dirac Equation.- 6. Exercises and Problems.- V: Covariant Harmonic Oscillator Formalism.- 1. Covariant Harmonic Oscillator Differential Equations.- 2. Normalizable Solutions of the Relativistic Oscillator Equation.- 3. Irreducible Unitary Representations of the Poincare Group.- 4. Transformation Properties of Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions.- 5. Harmonic Oscillators in the Four-Dimensional Euclidean Space.- 6. Moving O(4) Coordinate System.- 7. Exercises and Problems.- VI: Dirac's Form of Relativistic Quantum Mechanics.- 1. C-Number Time-Energy Uncertainty Relation.- 2. Dirac's Form of Relativistic Theory of "Atom ".- 3. Dirac's Light-Cone Coordinate System.- 4. Harmonic Oscillators in the Light-Cone Coordinate System.- 5. Lorentz-Invariant Uncertainty Relations.- 6. Exercises and Problems.- VII: Massless Particles.- 1. What is the E(2) Group?.- 2. E(2)-like Little Group for Photons.- 3. Transformation Properties of Photon Polarization Vectors.- 4. Unitary Transformation of Photon Polarization Vectors.- 5. Massless Particles with Spin 1/2.- 6. Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions for Massless Composite Particles.- 7. Exercises and Problems.- VIII: Group Contractions.- 1. SE(2) Group as a Contraction of SO(3).- 2. E(2)-like Little Group as an Infinite-momentum/zero-mass Limit of the O(3)-like Little Group for Massive Particles.- 3. Large-momentum/zero-mass Limit of the Dirac Equation.- 4. Finite-dimensional Non-unitary Representations of the SE(2) Group.- 5. Polarization Vectors for Massless Particles with Integer Spin.- 6. Lorentz and Galilei Transformations.- 7. Group Contractions and Unitary Representations of SE(2).- 8. Exercises and Problems.- IX: SO(2, 1) and SU(1, 1).- 1. Geometry of SL(2, r) and Sp(2).- 2. Finite-dimensional Representations of SO(2, 1).- 3. Complex Angular Momentum.- 4. Unitary Representations of SU(1, 1).- 5. Exercises and Problems.- X: Homogeneous Lorentz Group.- 1. Statement of the Problem.- 2. Finite-dimensional Representations of the Homogeneous Lorentz Group.- 3. Transformation Properties of Electric and Magnetic Fields.- 4. Pseudo-unitary Representations for Dirac Spinors.- 5. Harmonic Oscillator Wave Functions in the Lorentz Coordinate System.- 6. Further Properties of the Homogeneous Lorentz Group.- 7. Concluding Remarks.- XI: Hadronic Mass Spectra.- 1. Quark Model.- 2. Three-particle Symmetry Classifications According to the Method of Dirac.- 3. Construction of Symmetrized Wave Functions.- 4. Symmetrized Products of Symmetrized Wave Functions.- 5. Spin Wave Functions for the Three-Quark System.- 6. Three-quark Unitary Spin and SU(6) Wave Functions.- 7. Three-body Spatial Wave Functions.- 8. Totally Symmetric Baryonic Wave Functions.- 9. Baryonic Mass Spectra.- 10. Mesons.- 11. Exercises and Problems.- XII: Lorentz-Dirac Deformation in High-Energy Physics.- 1. Lorentz-Dirac Deformation of Hadronic Wave Functions.- 2. Form Factors of Nucleons.- 3. Calculation of the Form Factors.- 4. Scaling Phenomenon and the Parton Picture.- 5. Covariant Harmonic Oscillators and the Parton Picture.- 6. Calculation of the Parton Distribution Function for the Proton.- 7. Jet Phenomenon.- 8. Exercises and Problems.- References.

موضوع مستند نشده

Group theory.

موضوع مستند نشده

Harmonic oscillators.

موضوع مستند نشده

Poincaré series.

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

by Y.S. Kim, Marilyn E. Noz.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Marilyn E Noz

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Y S Kim

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y