Symmetry And Structural Properties Of Condensed Matter - Proceedings Of The 5th International School On Theoretical Physics

ISBN: 9789810239312 出版年：1999 页码：494 Tadeusz Lulek Barbara Lulek World Scientific Publishing Company

This volume continues the series of proceedings of summer schools on theoretical physics which aim at an adequate description of the structure of condensed matter in terms of sophisticated, advanced mathematical tools. This time, the main emphasis is put on the question of whether (and when) the energy bands in solids are continuous. Profs. L Michel, J Zak and others consider the origin, existence and continuity of band structure. Also, some previously discussed problems (magnetic symmetry, flux quantization, statistics, quasicrystals, the Bethe ansatz) are pursued further, and appropriate mathematical tools, rooted in “actions of groups on sets”, are developed.