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Autore: | Altmann, Simon L. |
Titolo: | Rotations, quaternions, and double groups / Simon L. Altmann |
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 |
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