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MA PH 464 - Group Theory in Physics: Lecture Notes

Vincent Bouchard

Front Matter
- Motivation
- References
1 Basic concepts of group theory
2 Representation theory
3 Applications
4 Lie groups and Lie algebras
5 Representation theory of Lie groups

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Chapter 3 Applications

In this section we study a few simple physical applications of group and representation theory, focusing on finite groups.

3.1 Crystallography
3.2 Quantum Mechanics
3.3 Coupled harmonic oscillators
3.4 The Lagrangian

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