Title: Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

Description: Lie algebras Foundations of Lie groups and Lie algebras, classical groups and homogeneous spaces. Abstract Lie algebras. Basic representation theory of compact Lie groups.

Offered: Fall

Prerequisite: MAT 531, MAT 534

Credits: 3

Textbook:

• Recommended:
  
  * Representation Theory: A First Course (Graduate Texts in Mathematics) by William Fulton
  
  * An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras by Alexander Kirillov Jr

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