PřF:F8600 Lie groups in physics - Course Information
F8600 Lie groups in physics
Faculty of ScienceSpring 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- doc. Klaus Bering Larsen, Ph.D. (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- doc. Klaus Bering Larsen, Ph.D.
Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics – Physics Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: doc. Klaus Bering Larsen, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics – Physics Section – Faculty of Science - Timetable
- Wed 17:00–18:50 FLenc,03028
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Physics (programme PřF, N-FY)
- Course objectives
- The examples from quantum theory will demonstrate the importance of the group theory for physics.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will be able to explain the basic properties of the rotation group, they will know about isospin and the group theory of the hydrogen atom. They will learn how to use Young diagrams.
- Syllabus
- Introduction. QM and rotation invariance. Representations. SU(2). Spin. Isospin. Hydrogen atom. SU(3). Representation of SU(N). Young tableaux.
- Literature
- CARTER, Roger, Graeme SEGAL and Ian MACDONALD. Lectures on lie groups and lie algebras. 1st pub. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 190 s. ISBN 0-521-49922-4. info
- HELGASON, Sigurdur. Differential geometry, Lie groups, and symmetric spaces. New York: Academic Press, 1978, xv, 628. ISBN 0123384605. info
- Teaching methods
- Lectures.
- Assessment methods
- A short presentation of a relevant topic according to own choice.
- Language of instruction
- English
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught once in two years.
General note: S.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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