The beauty of mathematics in science : the intellectual path of J Q Chen / edited by D H Feng [and others].

Contributions in English; one in Chinese and English.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Publications of Jin-Quan Chen": pages 259-266.

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This book is a tribute to the life and work of J Q Chen. The contributions of Chen to nuclear and molecular physics are discussed vis-à-vis present developments in these fields. Among other subjects, the present status of microscopic theories of the interacting boson model in nuclear physics and the theory of symmetry adaptation of molecular vibrations in molecular physics are reviewed. The latter theory is particularly useful for large molecular species such as fullerenes, where icosahedral symmetry plays a fundamental role. Contents: A Conceptual Review of the New Approach to Group Represent.

1. A conceptual review of the new approach to group representation theory / Fan Wang -- 2. The interacting boson model / P. Van Isacker -- 3. Structure of nuclei near the first order spherical-deformed phase transition in the interacting boson model / N.V. Zamfir, G.E. Fernandes and R.F. Casten -- 4. Dynamical symmetry approach to collective motions in many-body systems / Cheng-Li Wu -- 5. Fermion dynamical symmetries and high temperature superconductors / Mike Guidry -- 6. The nucleon-pair shell model truncated to the SD subspace for even-even nuclei / Yan-an Luo, J.P. Draayer and Feng Pan -- 7. Quantum mechanics on a sphere / Joseph N. Ginocchio -- 8. The method of symmetrized bosons / F. Iachello -- 9. The perturbed Dirac-Coulomb problem via SO(2, l) algebra. A dilemma! / K.T. Hecht -- 10. Continuous groups and molecular electronic structure / Josef Paldus and Xiangzhu Li -- 11. The irreducible tensor bases of simple Lie algebras / H.Z. Sun and D. Ruan -- 12. Irreducible bases in icosahedral group space and their application / Zhong-Qi Ma -- 13. Induction and subduction coefficients of Hecke and coupling and re-coupling coefficients of UQ(N) / Feng Pan and J.P. Draayer -- 14. Algebraic solutions for point groups / Jialun Ping -- 15. Physical method of group representation theory. I.A new approach to theory of finite-group representations / Jin-Quan Chen, Fan Wang and Mei-Juan Gao -- 16. Physical method of group representation theory. I.A new approach to theory of finite-group representations (in Chinese) / Jin-Quan Chen, Fan Wang and Mei-Juan Gao -- 17. Publications of Jin-Quan Chen.

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