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Teturo Inui
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Japan Women’s University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan
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Yukito Tanabe
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Japan Women’s University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan
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Yositaka Onodera
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Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Tama-ku, Kawasaki 214, Japan
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 1-6
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 7-29
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 30-43
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 44-81
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 82-101
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 102-114
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 115-168
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 169-182
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 183-219
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 220-233
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 234-258
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 259-290
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 291-315
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 316-332
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- Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Pages 333-359
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Back Matter
Pages 360-397
About this book
This book has been written to introduce readers to group theory and its ap plications in atomic physics, molecular physics, and solid-state physics. The first Japanese edition was published in 1976. The present English edi tion has been translated by the authors from the revised and enlarged edition of 1980. In translation, slight modifications have been made in. Chaps. 8 and 14 to update and condense the contents, together with some minor additions and improvements throughout the volume. The authors cordially thank Professor J. L. Birman and Professor M. Car dona, who encouraged them to prepare the English translation. Tokyo, January 1990 T. Inui . Y. Tanabe Y. Onodera Preface to the Japanese Edition As the title shows, this book has been prepared as a textbook to introduce readers to the applications of group theory in several fields of physics. Group theory is, in a nutshell, the mathematics of symmetry. It has three main areas of application in modern physics. The first originates from early studies of crystal morphology and constitutes a framework for classical crystal physics. The analysis of the symmetry of tensors representing macroscopic physical properties (such as elastic constants) belongs to this category. The sec ond area was enunciated by E. Wigner (1926) as a powerful means of handling quantum-mechanical problems and was first applied in this sense to the analysis of atomic spectra. Soon, H.
