Math 227               Lie Groups               Winter 2008

Updated 1/9/08

 

INSTRUCTOR

Instructor: Debra Lewis
Office: 359B Baskin Engineering
Phone: 459-2718
E-mail: lewis at ucsc dot edu (checked more often than voicemail or gmail) and/or DebraKLewis at gmail dot com
 

TIMES AND PLACES

Lecture: MW 10:00-11:45, 360 JBE
Office hours: TBA
Course web page: http://people.ucsc.edu/~lewis/Math227 (here)
 

TEXT

Lie Groups, J.J. Duistermaat and J.A.C. Kolk, Springer.

Possible supplementary texts:
Lie Groups and Algebra with Applications to Physics, Geometry, and Mechanics, D.H. Sattinger and O.L. Weaver, Springer.
Matrix Groups, Morton L. Curtis, Springer.
A Survey of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras with Applications and Computational Methods, Johan G.F. Belinfante and Bernard Kolman, SIAM.
 

VERY TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Monday Wednesday
January 9: classical matrix groups and algebras
January 14: Lie groups and algebras, the adjoint action January 16: the exponential map
January 21: HOLIDAY January 23: Lie's three theorems
January 28: Lie's three theorems (cont.) January 30: Lie subgroups
February 4: actions and quotients February 6: compact Lie groups, centralizers
February 11: roots and root spaces February 13: maximal tori
February 18: HOLIDAY February 20: the Weyl group
February 25: orbit structure February 27: the fundamental group
March 3: representations March 5: Shur's lemma
March 10: averaging March 13: matrix coefficients and characters
March 17: Peter-Weyl theorem