Tracks, Lie's, and Exceptional Magic

Predrag Cvitanović ()
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Predrag Cvitanović: Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Physics

A chapter in Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry II, 2007, pp 133-160 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Sometimes a solution to a mathematical problem is so beautiful that it can impede further progress for a whole century. So is the case with the Killing- Cartan classification of semi-simple Lie algebras [Killing 1888; Cartan 1952]. It is elegant, it is beautiful, and it says that the 3 classical families and 5 exceptional algebras are all there is, but what does that mean?

Keywords: Feynman Diagram; Invariance Condition; Invariance Group; Invariant Tensor; Diophantine Condition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30308-4_3

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