Group theory and its application to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wigner, Eugene Paul, 1902-1995.
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: 1959.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
German
Edition: Expanded and improved ed.
Series: Pure and applied physics, v. 5
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/00798193/5
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN: 9780323152785
0323152783
1483275760
9781483275765
Index Number: QA171
CLC: O152
Contents: Vectors and matrices -- Generalizations -- The principal axis transformation -- The elements of quantum mechanics -- Perturbation theory -- Transformation theory and the bases for the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics -- Abstract group theory -- Invariant subgroups -- The general theory of representations -- Continuous groups -- Representations and eigenfunctions -- The algebra of representation theory -- The symmetric group -- The rotation groups -- The three-dimensional pure rotation group -- The representations of the direct product -- Selection rules and the splitting of spectral lines -- Partial determination of eigenfunctions from their transformation properties -- Electron spin -- The total angular momentum quantum number -- The fine structure of spectral lines -- Selection and intensity rules with spin -- Racah coefficients -- The building-up principle -- Time inversion -- Physical interpretation and classical limits of representation coefficients, three- and six-j symbols.