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This book has been written to introduce readers to group theory and its ap plications in atomic physics, molecular physics, and solid-state physics. The first Japanese edition was published in 1976. The present English edi tion has been translated by the authors from the revised and enlarged edition of 1980. In translation, slight modifications have been made in. Chaps. 8 and 14 to update and condense the contents, together with some minor additions and improvements throughout the volume. The authors cordially thank Professor J. L. Birman and Professor M. Car dona, who encouraged them to prepare the English translation. Tokyo, January 1990 T. Inui . Y. Tanabe Y. Onodera Preface to the Japanese Edition As the title shows, this book has been prepared as a textbook to introduce readers to the applications of group theory in several fields of physics. Group theory is, in a nutshell, the mathematics of symmetry. It has three main areas of application in modern physics. The first originates from early studies of crystal morphology and constitutes a framework for classical crystal physics. The analysis of the symmetry of tensors representing macroscopic physical properties (such as elastic constants) belongs to this category. The sec ond area was enunciated by E. Wigner (1926) as a powerful means of handling quantum-mechanical problems and was first applied in this sense to the analysis of atomic spectra. Soon, H.
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Book Title: Group Theory and Its Applications in Physics
Authors: Teturo Inui, Yukito Tanabe, Yositaka Onodera
Series Title: Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80021-4
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-60445-7Published: 01 March 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-80021-4Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 0171-1873
Series E-ISSN: 2197-4179
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 397
Additional Information: Original Japanese Edition published by Shokabo Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo 1976
Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Crystallography and Scattering Methods, Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics