Article ID: CBB000771356

Introducing Groups into Quantum Theory (1926--1930) (2006)

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Scholz, Erhard (Author)


Historia Mathematica
Volume: 33
Pages: 440--490


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Geometry and its Uses in Physics, 1900-1930”
Language: English

In the second half of the 1920s, physicists and mathematicians introduced group-theoretic methods into the recently invented new quantum mechanics. Group representations turned out to be a highly useful tool in spectroscopy and in giving quantum-mechanical explanations of chemical bonds. H. Weyl explored the possibilities of a group-theoretic approach to quantization. In his second version of a gauge theory for electromagnetism, he even started to build a bridge between quantum theoretic symmetries and differential geometry. Until the early 1930s, an active group of young quantum physicists and mathematicians contributed to this new challenging field. But around the turn to the 1930s, opposition to the new methods in physics grew. This article focuses on the work of those physicists and mathematicians who introduced group-theoretic methods into quantum physics.

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Authors & Contributors
Blum, Alexander S.
Zhang, Feng
Valente, Giovanni
Stöltzner, Michael
Statile, Glenn N.
Stachel, John J.
Concepts
Physics
Quantum mechanics
Mathematical physics
Electromagnetism
Mathematics
Particles (nuclear physics)
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Early modern
Modern
19th century
Places
Italy
Austria
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