Group Theory
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- Syllabus
- birdtracks.eu/course3/schedule.html
- Course description
- overview
- 2017 student evaluations
- 2019 student evaluations
- should I take this course?
- Prerequisites
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A basic background in linear algebra and quantum mechanics.
- Instructor
- Predrag Cvitanović
email: predrag@gatech.edu
- Teaching method
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Two online lectures (recorded) and a homework problem set per week.
- Course notes
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P. Cvitanović, World Wide Quest to Tame Group Theory;
weekly notes, including all problem sets.
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B. Gutkin, Group theory
and its applications in physics lecture notes.
- Resources
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A few references we have consulted:
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Dresselhaus, Dresselhaus and Jorio, Group Theory : Application to the Physics of Condensed Matter (Springer, NY 2007)
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M. Tinkham, Group Theory and Quantum Mechanics (McGraw-Hill, NY 1964) - nice book, worth owning.
- W. G. Harter, Principles of Symmetry, Dynamics, and Spectroscopy (Wiley, NY 1974)
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P. Cvitanović, Group Theory - birdtracks.eu
All chapter and section
numbers refer to the version 9.0 of this book, unless stated otherwise.
- J.-Q. Chen, J. Ping and F. Wang,
Group Representation Theory for Physicists
(World Scientific, Singapore 2002)
- Questions
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How is the course graded?
Dog ate my homework?
Fancy footwork?