Electronic Resource
College Park, Md.
:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Journal of Mathematical Physics
38 (1997), S. 3841-3862
ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
,
Physics
Notes:
This work extends the previous development of new mathematical machinery for nonlinear operators acting on a vector space. Starting from the usual concept of inner product, we find that Hermitian, anti-Hermitian, and unitary nonlinear operators can be defined without bringing in the ideas of a dual vector space or adjoint operators. After looking briefly at how these general ideas might be used in classical mechanics and to extend the linear Schrödinger equation of quantum theory, the topic of Lie groups and Lie algebras is studied. Many, but not all, of the familiar features of that topic are extended to nonlinear operators. New representations are found for a few simple cases of interest to physics, and some provocative implications for elementary particle theory are discussed. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.532070
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