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Author Cvitanović, Predrag.

Title Group theory : birdtracks, Lie's, and exceptional groups / Predrag Cvitanović.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 273 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index.
Contents A preview -- Invariants and reducibility -- Diagrammatic notation -- Recouplings -- Permutations -- Casimir operators -- Group integrals -- Unitary groups / P. Cvitanovic, H. Elvang, and A.D. Kennedy -- Orthogonal groups -- Spinors / P. Cvitanovic and A.D. Kennedy -- Symplectic groups -- Negative dimensions / P. Cvitanovic and A.D. Kennedy -- Spinors' symplectic sisters / P. Cvitanovic and A.D. Kennedy -- SU(n) family of invariance groups -- G₂ family of invariance groups -- E family of invariance groups -- E₆ family of invariance groups -- F₄ family of invariance groups -- E-- family and its negative-dimensional cousins -- Exceptional magic -- Appendix A: Recursive decomposition -- Appendix B: Properties of young projections / H. Elvang and P. Cvitanovic.
Summary If classical Lie groups preserve bilinear vector norms, what Lie groups preserve trilinear, quadrilinear, and higher order invariants? Answering this question from a fresh and original perspective, Predrag Cvitanovic takes the reader on the amazing, four-thousand-diagram journey through the theory of Lie groups. This book is the first to systematically develop, explain, and apply diagrammatic projection operators to construct all semi-simple Lie algebras, both classical and exceptional. The invariant tensors are presented in a somewhat unconventional, but in recent years widely used, "birdt.
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Subject Group theory.
Group theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Cvitanović, Predrag. Group theory. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691118369 (DLC) 2008062101 (OCoLC)213133467
ISBN 9781400837670 (electronic book)
1400837677 (electronic book)
9780691118369
0691118361