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Relativity, Groups, Particles : Special Relativity and Relativistic Symmetry in Field and Particle Physics /

This textbook attempts to bridge the gap that exists between the two levels on which relativistic symmetry is usually presented - the level of introductory courses on mechanics and electrodynamics and the level of application in high-energy physics and quantum field theory: in both cases, too many o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sexl, Roman U.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Urbantke, Helmuth K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint : Springer, 2001.
Edition:1.
Subjects:
Physics.
Quantum theory.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Lorentz Transformation
  • Physical Interpretation
  • Lorentz Group, PoincarĂ© Group, and Minkowski Geometry
  • Relativistic Mechanics
  • Relativistic Electrodynamics
  • The Lorentz Group and Some of Its Representations
  • Representation Theory of the Rotation Group
  • Representation Theory of the Lorentz Group
  • Representation Theory of the PoincarĂ© Group
  • Conservation Laws in Relativistic Field Theory
  • Appendices: Basic Concepts from Group Theory; Abstract Multilinear Algebra; Majorana Spinors, Charge Conjugation, and Time Reversal in Dirac Theory; PoincarĂ© Covariance in Second Quantization.