Group Theory - Lecture 7: A Fundamental Lie Group: SU(2)
摘要
This video is dedicated to SU(2), the simplest and arguably the most important of all Lie groups: it stays behind the rotation properties of our space and provides the right tool to understand later all other Lie group. For this reason, it deserves a special and detailed discussion its own. It is part of a complete course consisting of 15 videos where there will be covered in details (together with many instructive examples) the basic properties of Group Theory of finite and continuous groups (such as the permutation group and the SU(2) group), the representation theory, the structure theory of roots and weights and the classification of compact Lie group. Symmetry is one of the most pervasive and powerful concepts in mathematics and its language is given by Group Theory, that is a quite universal discipline and finds vast applications in many other subjects, such as many branches of physics. Examples and exercises presented in this lesson will range from number theory to simple physical systems. The ideal viewers are undergraduate and graduate university students of scientific disciplines, postdoctoral fellows and, in general, scientific scholars eager to learn or deepen their knowledge on Group Theory.