Book:Harry J. Lipkin/Lie Groups for Pedestrians/Second Edition

Subject Matter

 * Lie Groups

Contents

 * Preface to First Edition
 * Preface to Second Edition


 * Chapter 1 Introduction


 * Chapter 2 Isospin. A Simple Example


 * Chapter 3 The Group $\SU 3$ and its Application to Elementary Particles


 * Chapter 4 The Three-Dimensional Harmonic Oscillator


 * Chapter 5 Algebras of Operators which Change the Number of Particles


 * Chapter 6 Permutations, Bookkeeping and Young Diagrams


 * Chapter 7 The Groups $\SU 4$, $\SU 6$ and $\SU {12}$, an Introduction to Groups of Higher Rank


 * Appendixes
 * A. Construction of the $\SU 3$ multiplets by combining sakaton triplets
 * B. Calculations of $\SU 3$ using an $\SU 2$ subgroup: $U$-spin
 * C. Experimental predictions from the octet model of unitary symmetry
 * D. Phases, a perennial headache


 * Bibliography


 * Subject Index