NONLINEAR DYNAMICS: QUANTUM CHAOS ----------------------------------------------------------- Georgia Tech PHYS 7224 Spring semester 2002 Predrag Cvitanovic' Lecture 25 Thu, Apr 9 2002 12:05-13:25 in Howey S106 Discrete symmetries ------------------- In this unplanned lecture on symmetries I diverged far from the ChaosBook text. Here is some reading to supplement the lecture: Reading: -------- Group Theory --- www.nbi.dk/GroupTheory/postscript.html chapter 5 - Permutations sects. 5.1, 5.2 chapter 8 - Unitary groups sects. 8.1, 8.2 Lattice Field Theory --- www.nbi.dk/~predrag/field_the/lattFT/lattFT.ps.gz sect. 1.5 Discrete Fourier transforms (as examples of the full reduction of the cyclic group - a subgroup of the permutation group) -------------------------------------------------------------- The solution of problems starting with helium trajectories and ending with the helium spectrum form the final exam in the course. If you prefer, you can compute the 3-disk resonances instead, the determination of perioidc orbits is easier in billards than it is in the flows. -------------------------------------------------------------------