Historical and other Remarks on Hidden Symmetries
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Apart from a few remarks on lattice systems with global or gauge symmetries, most of this talk is devoted to some interesting ancient examples of symmetries and their breakdowns in elasticity theory and hydrodynamics. Since Galois Theory is in many ways the origin of group theory as a tool to analyse (hidden) symmetries, a brief review of this profound mathematical theory is also given.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9810302,
title = {Historical and other Remarks on Hidden Symmetries},
author = {Norbert Straumann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9810302},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages, 6 postscript figures included, uses AMS-TeX