Unitary symmetry and combinatorics

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Unitary symmetry and combinatorics

James D. Louck

World Scientific, c2008

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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 597-609) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This monograph integrates unitary symmetry and combinatorics, showing in great detail how the coupling of angular momenta in quantum mechanics is related to binary trees, trivalent trees, cubic graphs, MacMahon's master theorem, and other basic combinatorial concepts. A comprehensive theory of recoupling matrices for quantum angular momentum is developed. For the general unitary group, polynomial forms in many variables called matrix Schur functions have the remarkable property of giving all irreducible representations of the general unitary group and are the basic objects of study. The structure of these irreducible polynomials and the reduction of their Kronecker product is developed in detail, as is the theory of tensor operators.

Table of Contents

  • Quantum Angular Momentum
  • Composite Systems
  • Graphs and Adjacency Diagrams
  • Generating Functions
  • The D-Polynomials: Form
  • Operator Actions in Hilbert Space
  • The D-Polynomials: Structure
  • The General Linear and Unitary Groups
  • Tensor Operator Theory
  • Compendium A: Basic Algebraic Objects
  • Compendium B: Combinatorial Objects.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA87227290
  • ISBN
    • 9789812814722
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New Jersey
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxi, 619 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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