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Symmetry and Spontaneous Symmetry Break<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Selected Groups and Symmetries<br />

Spontaneous Symmetry Break<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Arrival of the Theory of Cont<strong>in</strong>uous (Lie) Groups<br />

Sophus LIE (1842-1899)<br />

S. LIE<br />

A. Introduces new type of groups whose elements<br />

are cont<strong>in</strong>uous functions of some parameter(s)<br />

B. Most important for physics applications are<br />

groups of matrices<br />

C. Examples: GL n , SL n , U n , SU n , O n , Sp 2n ...<br />

Dist<strong>in</strong>guished role <strong>in</strong> physics play the space-time Lie groups: Rotation,<br />

Lorentz and Po<strong>in</strong>caré, dimensions 3, 6 and 10, respectively, as well as<br />

the unitary and special unitary groups together with all their sub-groups<br />

Jerzy DUDEK<br />

<strong>SYMMETRIES</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>PHYSICS</strong>

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