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Spring 2017
Lecture Notes

 

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Lecture Notes

Here are my notes for the lectures. The material on finite groups comes alternatively from Joshi, Tinkham or Jones. The material on Lie graups comes from Georgi and other sources. My lecture notes are posted here, along with beamer (aka powerpoint) slides.

Latexed Lectures are available in full format for easier on screen reading. They are also given reduced to two pages/side for more efficient printing. The dates of last significant modification and of minor (typo) fixes are given, so you can update your files if necessary.

 
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Note material below the dividing line is left over from 2016, and may be changed.

Chapter Name for viewing for printing LecturesLast Big ModLast small Mod
TOC Cover, Table of Contents Pages 1-5 Pages 1-6   1/13/151/28/16
1 Groups Pages 7-26 Pages 7-26 Lects 1-2 1/13/151/20/17
2 Representations Pages 27-48 Pages 27-48 Lects 3-6 2/5/151/28/16
3 Infinite Groups Pages 49-66 Pages 49-66Lects 6-8 1/11/122/7/17
4 SU(2) Pages 67-83 Pages 67-83 Lects 8-10 2/11/162/16/17
5 Semisimple Compact Lie Groups Pages 85-90 Pages 85-90 Lects 10-11 1/11/122/16/17
6 SU(3) Pages 91-93 Pages 91-94 Lects 11 1/11/122/17/16
7 Simple Roots Pages 95-98 Pages 95-98 Lects 12 3/2/152/23/16
8 Dynkin Diagrams Pages 99-104 Pages 99-104 Lect 12-13 1/11/122/24/16
9 Finding the Other Roots Pages 105-107 Pages 105-108 Lects 13 2/28/172/28/17
10 Reps of Lie Groups Pages 109-119 Pages 109-120 Lects 13-14 1/11/123/10/17
11 Sk and Tensor Reps Pages 121-132 Pages 121-132 Lects 15-17 1/11/123/24/17
12 Tensor Products of Reps Pages 133-136 Pages 133-136Lect 18 1/11/123/28/17
12 1/2 Field Theory Pages 1-8 Pages 1-8Lect 18 3/23/16 
13 Local Symmetry Pages 137-149 Pages 137-150 Lect 19-20 1/11/123/28/16
14 Hamiltonian Formulation Pages 151-162 Pages 151-162 Lects 20-21 4/9/154/13/17
15 Block waves and SSB Pages 163-170 Pages 163-170 Lect 21-22 4/17/154/13/17
Below this line is left over from 2016 and may change
16 SSB and Higgs Pages 171-183 Pages 171-183 Lect 22 4/6/164/13/17
17 Poincare and SUSY Pages 185-201 Pages 185-201 Lects 24-26 4/18/154/27/15
18 Conformal Invariance Pages 203-212 Pages 203-212 Lect 27 1/17/124/18/15
Index Pages 213-214 Pages 213-214   1/17/124/18/15


Intro/Summaries

Here are the summaries I give of last lecture and preview of today's lecture

Date 1/171/20 1/241/271/312/32/72/10 2/142/172/212/242/283/3
viewL1 L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7 L8 L9 L10 L11 L12 L13 L14
printL1 L2 L3 L4 L5     L8 L9   L11     L14
 
Date 3/103/213/24 3/283/314/44/74/114/14 4/184/214/254/28 
view L15 L16 L17 L18 L19 L20 L21 L22 L23 L24 L25 L26 L27  
print   L16 L17 L18 L19 L20 L21 L22 L23 L24 L25 L26 L27  

Supplementary Notes

Here are some supplementary notes which may or may not be relevant --- I have placed them here brought from other courses. Some of these may be relevant, but most probably not.

There is a much larger set on the Supplementary Notes page.



  Joel Shapiro (shapiro@physics.rutgers.edu)
  Last modified: Wed Apr 26 10:59:42 2017