Operators and representation theory: canonical models for algebras of operators arising in quantum mechanics
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Main Author: Jørgensen, Palle E. T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam North-Holland 1988
Series:North-Holland mathematics studies 147
Notas de matemática (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) no. 120
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Item Description:Historically, operator theory and representation theory both originated with the advent of quantum mechanics. The interplay between the subjects has been and still is active in a variety of areas. This volume focuses on representations of the universal enveloping algebra, covariant representations in general, and infinite-dimensional Lie algebras in particular. It also provides new applications of recent results on integrability of finite-dimensional Lie algebras. As a central theme, it is shown that a number of recent developments in operator algebras may be handled in a particularly elegant manner by the use of Lie algebras, extensions, and projective representations. In several cases, this Lie algebraic approach to questions in mathematical physics and C*-algebra theory is new; for example, the Lie algebraic treatment of the spectral theory of curved magnetic field Hamiltonians, the treatment of irrational rotation type algebras, and the Virasoro algebra. Also examined are C*-algebraic methods used (in non-traditional ways) in the study of representations of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras and their extensions, and the methods developed by A. Connes and M.A. Rieffel for the study of the Yang-Mills problem. Cutting across traditional separations between fields of specialization, the book addresses a broad audience of graduate students and researchers
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-329) and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 337 p.)
ISBN:9780444703217
0444703217

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