Algebraic Approaches to Nuclear Structure

CRC Press

This book is devoted to algebraic models and their applications. It presents a simple, but thorough, pedagogic approach, starting from the most elementary ideas and building up to the most recent results of advanced theories. The book is designed for a graduate level treatment. > This book is devoted to algebraic models and their applications. It presents a simple, but thorough, pedagogic approach, starting from the most elementary ideas and building up to the most recent results of advanced theories. The book is designed for a graduate level treatment. > Preface to the Series -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Orientation -- 1.2 Nuclear Structure -- 1.3 Guide to the Text /Richard F. Casten -- Chapter 2 Group Theory of the IBM and Algebraic Models in General -- 2.1 Introduction: Why Groups? -- 2.2 Occupation-Number Representation -- 2.3 Isospin and Angular Momentum -- 2.4 The General Unitary Group U(n) -- 2.5 The Group U(6) in the IBM -- 2.6 Group Reductions -- 2.7 Dyn.