Explicit and spontaneous breaking of SU(3) into its finite subgroups
Explicit and spontaneous breaking of SU(3) into its finite subgroups
- Event time: 12:00pm
- Event date: 2nd November 2011
- Speaker: Professor Roman Zwicky (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Lecture Theatre C, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
We will show how explicit and spontaneous breaking are related (one-to-one). Explicit breaking is formalised through invariants. The latter divide into primary and secondary types. We will discuss how invariants can be found systematically from the Molien functions. We further discuss the necessary and sufficient criteria for breaking into a group where the latter is the non-trivial matter. All these concepts, though general, will be discussed in the context of finite SU(3) subgroups.
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