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Quantum Mechanics

Symmetries

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
  2. Symmetries in Quantum Mechanics

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 1-55
  3. Mathematical Supplement: Fundamental Properties of Lie Groups

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 87-134
  4. Symmetry Groups and Their Physical Meaning — General Considerations

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 135-140
  5. The Isospin Group (Isobaric Spin)

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 141-185
  6. The Hypercharge

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 187-194
  7. The SU(3) Symmetry

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 195-229
  8. Quarks and SU(3)

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 231-307
  9. Representations of the Permutation Group and Young Tableaux

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 309-344
  10. Mathematical Excursion. Group Characters

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 345-384
  11. Charm and SU(4)

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 385-433
  12. Mathematical Supplement

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 435-464
  13. Special Discrete Symmetries

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 465-476
  14. Dynamical Symmetries

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 477-496
  15. Mathematical Excursion: Non-compact Lie Groups

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 497-511
  16. Proof of Racah’s Theorem

    • Walter Greiner, Berndt Müller
    Pages 513-518
  17. Back Matter

    Pages 519-526

About this book

Greiner's lectures, which underlie these volumes, are internationally noted for their clarity, their completeness and for the effort that he has devoted to making physics an integral whole; his enthusiasm for his science is contagious and shines through almost every page. These volumes represent only a part of a unique and Herculean effort to make all of theoretical physics accessible to the interested student. Beyond that, they are of enormous value to the professional physicist and to all others working with quantum phenomena. Again and again the reader will find that, after dipping into a particular volume to review a specific topic, he will end up browsing, caught up by often fascinating new insights and developments with which he had not previously been familiar. Having used a number of Greiner's volumes in their original German in my teaching and research at Yale, I welcome these new and revised English translations and would recommend them enthusiastically to anyone searching for a coherent overview of physics.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Walter Greiner

  • Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Walter Greiner

  • Physics Department, Duke University, Durham, USA

    Berndt Müller

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