Symplectic Fibrations and Multiplicity Diagrams |
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| Author:
| Guillemin, Victor
Lerman, Eugene
Sternberg, Shlomo |
| ISBN: | 978-0-521-44323-4 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1996 |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $188.95 |
Book Description:
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Multiplicity diagrams can be viewed as schemes for describing "symmetry breaking" in quantum physics. The authors take a novel approach, using the techniques of symplectic geometry, and developing in detail some themes touched on in Symplectic Techniques in Physics by V. Guillemin and S. Sternberg: the geometry of the moment map, the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem, the interplay between coadjoint orbits and representation theory, and quantization. Students and researchers in geometry and...
More DescriptionMultiplicity diagrams can be viewed as schemes for describing "symmetry breaking" in quantum physics. The authors take a novel approach, using the techniques of symplectic geometry, and developing in detail some themes touched on in Symplectic Techniques in Physics by V. Guillemin and S. Sternberg: the geometry of the moment map, the Duistermaat-Heckman theorem, the interplay between coadjoint orbits and representation theory, and quantization. Students and researchers in geometry and mathematical physics will find this book fascinating.