Continuous Groups With Representations

Albert Fässler and Eduard Stiefel
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Albert Fässler: Ecole d’Ingénieurs Bienne, Ingenieurschule Biel
Eduard Stiefel: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 4 in Group Theoretical Methods and Their Applications, 1992, pp 73-104 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We resume Example 1.5 where the group G of all proper rotations of the space R3 was introduced. After choosing a cartesian coordinate system (i.e., an orthonormal basis) in R3, we can describe such a rotation by the following matrix A: the kth basis vector is rotated into a vector a k with coordinates a1k, a2k, a3k Thus these coordinates must be written in the kth. column of A, thus $$ A = \left[ {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {{a_{11}}{a_{12}}{a_{13}}} \\ {{a_{21}}{a_{22}}{a_{23}}} \\ {{a_{31}}{a_{32}}{a_{33}}} \end{array}} \right] $$ The three vectors a k are orthogonal unit vectors. Therefore, the inner product of two distinct columns = 0, and the inner product of a column with itself = 1. Inshort, 4.1 $$ {A^{\text{T}}}A = E{\text{ or equivalently }}{A^{ - 1}} = {A^T} $$ Here A T is the transposed matix and E the 3×3 identity matrix. Real matrices with the property (4.1) are called orthogonal. Conxequently, the inverse of an orthogonal matrix is obtained by interchanging rown and columns.

Keywords: Irreducible Representation; Homogeneous Polynomial; Lorentz Group; Abelian Subgroup; Spherical Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-0395-7_4

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