Symplectic Fibrations and Multiplicity Diagrams Paperback / softback
by Victor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Guillemin, Eugene (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Lerman, Shlomo (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Sternberg
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Multiplicity diagrams can be viewed as schemes for describing the phenomenon of 'symmetry breaking' in quantum physics.
The subject of this book is the multiplicity diagrams associated with the classical groups U(n), O(n), etc.
It presents such topics as asymptotic distributions of multiplicities, hierarchical patterns in multiplicity diagrams, lacanae, and the multiplicity diagrams of the rank 2 and rank 3 groups.
The authors take a novel approach, using the techniques of symplectic geometry.
The book develops in detail some themes which were touched on in the highly successful Symplectic Techniques in Physics by V.
Guillemin and S. Sternberg, including 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 35 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/06/2009
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- ISBN:9780521111867
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:240 pages, 35 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:11/06/2009
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- ISBN:9780521111867