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Symmetries in QFT. Nish University, June - July 2010. 1. CONTENT. Lecture 1 Introduction to groups and representations Lecture 2 Lie groups and Lie algebras The rotation group Dynamical symmetry (an example) Lorentz and Poincaré groups, conformal group
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Symmetries in QFT Nish University, June - July 2010 1
CONTENT • Lecture 1 Introduction to groups and representations • Lecture 2 Lie groups and Lie algebras The rotation group Dynamical symmetry (an example) Lorentz and Poincaré groups, conformal group Groups of internal (gauge) symmetries • Lecture 3 Complex semisimple Lie algebras Schur-Weyl duality (an exercise with Young diagrams) Symmetries in QFT - superselection sectors Supersymmetry 2