PHYSICS 231B
Methods of Mathematical Physics
Physics · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
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.
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Requisites
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Requisites: courses 221A, 231A, or equivalent.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
PHYSICS 231B
- PHYSICS 221AQuantum Mechanics
- PHYSICS 231AMethods of Mathematical Physics
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