Iop Concise Physics

Introduction to Lie Theory with Applications

By: William A. Schwalm

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Paperback | 2 May 2017

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This book provides an introduction to Lie Theory for first year graduate students and professional physicists who may not have across the theory in their studies. In particular, it is a summary overview of the theory of finite groups, a brief description of a manifold, and then an informal development of the theory of one-parameter Lie groups, especially as they apply to ordinary differential equations. The treatment is informal, but systematic and reasonably self-contained, as it assumes a familiarity with basic physics and applied calculus, but it does not assume additional mathematical training. Interested readers should have a fair chance of finding symmetries of a second order differential equation and should be able to use it to reduce the order of the differential equation.

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"This book, written for graduate student physicists, contains all the necessary basics one needs to know about Lie theory. In particular, it provides a summary overview of the theory of finite groups, a brief description of a manifold, and an informal development of the theory of one-parameter Lie groups, especially as they apply to ordinary differential equations.

The treatment is informal, although systematic and reasonably self-contained, as it assumes a familiarity with basic physics and applied calculus but does not assume additional mathematical training. The presentation is concise, although there are some points on which it is more expansive ...

I would recommend this book to professors who want to introduce their students to Lie groups, symmetries, and their applications in theoretical physics." - Leonardo Colombo in Mathematical Reviews

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