This graduate-level text develops the aspects of Group Theory most relevant to physics and chemistry (such as the Theory of representations) and illustrates their applications to Quantum mechanics.
A compact and worthwhile compilation of the scattered material on standard methods, this volume presumes a basic understanding of Quantum theory..
Chapter 8, which deals with solid-state physics, treats electronic energy band Theory and magnetic crystal symmetry.
Chapter 5 is devoted to the Theory of systems with full rotational symmetry, Chapter 6 to the systematic presentation of atomic structure, and Chapter 7 to molecular Quantum mechanics.
The formal Theory of finite groups and their representation is developed in Chapters 1 through 4 and illustrated by examples from the crystallographic point groups basic to solid-state and molecular theory.
The first five chapters focus chiefly on the introduction of methods, illustrated by physical examples, and the final three chapters offer a systematic treatment of the Quantum Theory of atoms, molecules, and solids.
This graduate-level text develops the aspects of Group Theory most relevant to physics and chemistry (such as the Theory of representations) and illustrates their applications to Quantum mechanics
