Lie Groups, Lie Algebras, and Representations: An Elementary Introduction (Hardcover)

Part I: General Theory.-Matrix Lie Groups.- The Matrix Exponential.- Lie Algebras.- Basic Representation Theory.- The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula and its Consequences.- Part II: Semisimple Lie Algebras.- The Representations of sl(3;C).-Semisimple Lie Algebras.- Root Systems.- Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- Further Properties of the Representations.- Part III: Compact lie Groups.- Compact Lie Groups and Maximal Tori.- The Compact Group Approach to Representation Theory.- Fundamental Groups of Compact Lie Groups.- Appendices.