Group theory and its application to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra
| Uniform Title: | Gruppentheorie. English |
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| Main Author: | Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995. |
| Other Authors: | ScienceDirect (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English German |
| Published: |
New York :
Academic Press,
1959.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations. |
| Edition: | Expanded and improved ed. |
| Series: |
Pure and applied physics ;
v. 5. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Vectors and matrices
- Generalizations
- The principal axis transformation
- The elements of quantum mechanics
- Perturbation theory
- Transformation theory and the bases for the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics
- Abstract group theory
- Invariant subgroups
- The general theory of representations
- Continuous groups
- Representations and eigenfunctions
- The algebra of representation theory
- The symmetric group
- The rotation groups
- The three-dimensional pure rotation group
- The representations of the direct product
- Selection rules and the splitting of spectral lines
- Partial determination of eigenfunctions from their transformation properties
- Electron spin
- The total angular momentum quantum number
- The fine structure of spectral lines
- Selection and intensity rules with spin
- Racah coefficients
- The building-up principle
- Time inversion
- Physical interpretation and classical limits of representation coefficients, three- and six-j symbols.