Sternberg’s rigorous treatment of group extensions, central extensions, and projective representations is directly applicable to understanding fractional quantum Hall states and topological insulators. His chapter on the representation theory of the Poincaré group (Wigner’s classification of particles by mass and spin) is the foundation of every quantum field theory course.
The book is divided into three parts:
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