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Symmetries in QFT

Nish University, June - July 2010

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CONTENT

• Lecture 1 Introduction to groups and representations

• Lecture 2 Lie groups and Lie algebras

The rotation groupDynamical symmetry (an example)

Lorentz and Poincaré groups, conformal group Groups of internal (gauge) symmetries• Lecture 3

Complex semisimple Lie algebras Schur-Weyl duality (an exercise with Young diagrams) Symmetries in QFT - superselection sectors Supersymmetry

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