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DYNAMICAL SYMMETRY
Author(s): Wulfman Carl E (Author)
- Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
- Publication Date: December 26, 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 437 pages
- ISBN-10: 9814291366
- ISBN-13: 9789814291361
Book Description
Whenever systems are governed by continuous chains of causes and effects, their behavior exhibits the consequences of dynamical symmetries, many of them far from obvious. Dynamical Symmetry introduces the reader to Sophus Lie’s discoveries of the connections between differential equations and continuous groups that underlie this observation. It develops and applies the mathematical relations between dynamics and geometry that result. Systematic methods for uncovering dynamical symmetries are described, and put to use. Much material in the book is new and some has only recently appeared in research journals.Though Lie groups play a key role in elementary particle physics, their connection with differential equations is more often exploited in applied mathematics and engineering. Dynamical Symmetry bridges this gap in a novel manner designed to help readers establish new connections in their own areas of interest. Emphasis is placed on applications to physics and chemistry. Applications to many of the other sciences illustrate both general principles and the ubiquitousness of dynamical symmetries.
Editorial Reviews
Review
The examples considered could help to create careful treatment of this important branch of mathematics in every concrete group-symmetry engaged problem. Reading this book will be of benefit for all young mathematicians and mathematically inclined young physicists. — Zentralblatt Maths “Zentralblatt MATH”
This text provides a classical context, as well as the more usual quantum one, for the subject of dynamical symmetry and is realistically aimed at first-year graduate students in physics or chemistry who may wish to pursue research in this still-important area. — Contemporary Physics “Contemporary Physics”
… the way the book has been written ensures that most of the material can be readily understood with a modest mathematical background. — Mathematical Reviews “Mathematical Reviews”
From the Back Cover
Whenever systems are governed by continuous chains of causes and effects, their behavior exhibits the consequences of dynamical symmetries, many of them far from obvious. Dynamical Symmetry introduces the reader to Sophus Lie s discoveries of the connections between differential equations and continuous groups that underlie this observation. It develops and applies the mathematical relations between dynamics and geometry that result. Systematic methods for uncovering dynamical symmetries are described, and put to use. Much material in the book is new and some has only recently appeared in research journals.Though Lie groups play a key role in elementary particle physics, their connection with differential equations is more often exploited in applied mathematics and engineering. Dynamical Symmetry bridges this gap in a novel manner designed to help readers establish new connections in their own areas of interest. Emphasis is placed on applications to physics and chemistry. Applications to many of the other sciences illustrate both general principles and the ubiquitousness of dynamical symmetries.
