Rotations, quaternions, and double groups / Simon L. Altmann
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| Autore: |
Altmann, Simon L.
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| Titolo: |
Rotations, quaternions, and double groups / Simon L. Altmann
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press |
| New York : Oxford University Press, 1986 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | xiv, 317 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Disciplina: | 510.9 |
| Soggetto topico: | Rotation groups |
| Quaternions | |
| Finite groups | |
| Representations of groups | |
| Classificazione: | LC QC174.17.R65 |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-303) and index |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- All you need to know about symmetries, matrices, and groups -- A primer on rotations and rotation matrices -- Rotations and angular momentum -- Tensor bases: introduction to spinors -- The bilinear transformation: introduction to SU(2), SU'(2), and rotations. More about spinors -- Rotations and SU(2). The stereographic projection -- Projective representations -- The geometry of rotations -- The topology of rotations -- The spinor representations -- The algebra of rotations: quaternions -- Double groups -- The irreducible representations of SO(3) -- Examples and applications -- Solutions to problems |
| ISBN: | 9780198553724 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 991003806839707536 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. del Salento |
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Oxford science publications