Methods of Mathematical Physics

4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

Lecture, four hours. Requisites: courses 221A, 231A, or equivalent. Widely used methods of group theory with applications to physics, including matrix Lie groups and Lie algebras, crystallographic groups, representations of groups and Lie algebras, tensors, spinors, roots, weights, structure of simple Lie algebras, and homogeneous spaces. S/U or letter grading.