Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)
Stephanie Frank Singer
Language: English
Pages: 404
ISBN: 1441920358
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Concentrates on how to make predictions about the numbers of each kind of basic state of a quantum system from only two ingredients: the symmetry and linear model of quantum mechanics Method has wide applications in crystallography, atomic structure, classification of manifolds with symmetry and other areas Engaging and vivid style Driven by numerous exercises and examples Systematic organization Separate solutions manual available
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homogeneous harmonic polynomials of three variables to the sphere S 2 . In this section we will give a typical physics-style introduction to spherical harmonics. Here we state, but do not prove, their relationship to homogeneous harmonic polynomials; a formal statement and proof are given Proposition A.2 of Appendix A. Physics texts often introduce spherical harmonics by applying the technique of separation of variables to a differential equation with spherical symmetry. This technique, which we
0. (Readers familiar with fields should prove this statement for finite-dimensional vector spaces over any field.) Exercise 2.30 Define an equivalence of matrices by: A1 ∼ A2 if and only if there is a matrix B such that A1 = B A2 B −1 . Show that matrix multiplication is well defined on equivalence classes. Show that trace and determinant are well defined on equivalence classes. Show that eigenvalues are well defined, but eigenvectors are not. Finally, show that given a vector space V , any linear
but the positive definiteness requirement (such as the Minkowski metric on spacetime in special relativity), we are concerned here with positive definite brackets. For example, for any natural number n there is a natural complex scalar product on the n-dimensional complex vector space Cn defined by ⎞ ⎛ ⎞ ⎛ w1 v1 n ⎜ .. ⎟ ⎜ .. ⎟ v ∗j w j = v ∗ w, ⎝ . ⎠ , ⎝ . ⎠ := j=1 vn wn where the last expression is matrix multiplication of a row n-vector (v ∗ ) and a column n-vector (w). It is not hard to check
of Several Variables. Second edition. Foulds: Combinatorial Optimization for Undergraduates. Foulds: Optimization Techniques: An Introduction. Franklin: Methods of Mathematical Economics. (continued after index) Stephanie Frank Singer Linearity, Symmetry, and Prediction in the Hydrogen Atom Stephanie Frank Singer Philadelphia, PA 19103 U.S.A. quantum@symmetrysinger.com Editorial Board S. Axler College of Science and Engineering San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA 94132 U.S.A.
number n we have χn λ 0 0 λ−1 n = λn−2k . k=0 4.7. Characters of Representations 143 Next we show by induction on n that this last expression is a polynomial of degree n in (λ). First we need two base cases: for χ0 we have 0 λ0−2k = 1, k=0 a polynomial of degree 0, while for χ1 we have 1 λ1−2k = λ + λ−1 = λ + λ∗ = 2 (λ), k=0 a polynomial of degree 1 in (λ). For the inductive step we note that n λn−2k = λn + λ−n + k=0 n−1 λn−2k k=1 = λn + λ−n + n−2 λn−2(k+1) k=0 = λn + λ−n +
