Group theory: birdtracks, lie's, and exceptional groups
- New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2020.
- x, 262 p. : ill. ; pb; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
If classical Lie groups preserve bilinear vector norms, what Lie groups preserve trilinear, quadrilinear, and higher order invariants? Answering this question from a fresh and original perspective, Predrag Cvitanovic takes the reader on the amazing, four-thousand-diagram journey through the theory of Lie groups. This book is the first to systematically develop, explain, and apply diagrammatic projection operators to construct all semi-simple Lie algebras, both classical and exceptional. The invariant tensors are presented in a somewhat unconventional, but in recent years widely used, "birdtrac.
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