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Record Nr.

UNINA9910847576103321

Autore

Ceulemans Arnout Jozef

Titolo

Group Theory Applied to Chemistry [[electronic resource] /] / by Arnout Jozef Ceulemans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

94-024-2245-5

Edizione

[2nd ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 pages)

Collana

Theoretical Chemistry and Computational Modelling, , 2214-4722

Disciplina

541.2

Soggetti

Chemistry, Physical and theoretical

Crystallography

Inorganic chemistry

Theoretical Chemistry

Crystallography and Scattering Methods

Inorganic Chemistry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Operations -- Function Spaces and Matrices -- Groups -- Representations -- What has Quantum Chemistry Got to Do with It? -- Interactions -- Spherical Symmetry and Spins -- Line Groups and Plane Groups.

Sommario/riassunto

The second edition of this textbook provides a more elaborate explanation of several important group-theoretical concepts in quantum chemistry, such as: the bra-ket conjugation relation, the connection between point groups and isometries, the practical use of subduction tables, the eigenvalues of Cayley graphs, and the symmetry of Slater determinants. A new chapter introduces the application of line and plane groups to the properties of nanostructured low-dimensional molecular systems. In addition, several extra study problems are inserted to illustrate group theory at work in molecular science. The book is of great interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students, enabling them to put the tools of group theory into practice when studying chemical problems of their own research. More experienced researchers will find in this book useful leads to the mathematical aspects of their subject.