Group Theoretical Methods in Physics: Sixth International Colloquium Tbingen 19 [Paperback]

A guide to Lie superalgebras.- Supergravity in the physics of particles and fields.- Harmonic analysis on graded (or super) Lie groups.- The diagram lattice as structural principle in mathematics.- Kinematical symmetries in molecular quantum mechanics.- Symmetry of non-rigid molecules.- Some recent results on the metaplectic representation.- The nuclear collective model and the symplectic group.- Geometry of real and complex canonical transformations in quantum mechanics.- Composite particles and symplectic (SEMI-) groups.- Group theory of the Landau  Thermodynamic theory of continuous phase transitions in crystals.- Phase transitions, approach to equilibrium, and structural stability.- Topological classification of symmetry defects in ordered media.- Dynamical origin of symmetry.- Action of control semi groups on manifold and application to realization theory.- Some applications of the theory of semigroups to automata.- Position space renormalization group.- Static solitons in more than one dimension.- Remarks on the energy representation of Sobolev-Lie groups.- Unbounded representations of the Poincare and gauge groups in the indefinite metric quantization of the electromagnetic field.- On the construction of graded Lie algebras.- Exceptional parafermions in a Hilbert space over an associative algebra.- The SU(4) nuclear symmetry revisited.- The spinning electron.- Group theoretical expansions of scattering amplitudes for particles with spin.- On the extension of vector fields and the superluminal transformations.- A group theoretical derivation of the minimal coupling in elementary quantum mechanics.- Towards a constructive approach to supersymmetric ?.- The maximal Abelian subgroups of the conformal group of space-time.- The exceptional groups as candidates forsupersymmetry.- Quark bag excitations, SL(3,R) spectrum generating group and vector states in e+e? annihilation.- Completeness of networks of states.- PUA representations of Shubnikov space groups and sell£