nLab David John Simms

David Simms was an Irish Mathematician based at Trinity College Dublin.

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Selected writings

On Lie groups and quantum mechanics (cf. Gruppenpest):

• David John Simms: Lie Groups and Quantum Mechanics, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 52, Springer (1968) [doi:10.1007/BFb0069914]

  (with an eye towards quantum mechanics, cf. Gruppenpest – beware of the false claim on p. 10 that U(ℋ) is not a topological group in the strong operator topology, corrected by Schottenloher 2013, Espinoza & Uribe 2014, going back to Schottenloher 1995, but repeated by Atiyah & Segal 2004)

On the topoloy of PU(ℋ) (the projective unitary group on a separable Hilbert space):

• David John Simms, Topological aspects of the projective unitary group, Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc. 68 1 (1970) 57-60 (doi:10.1017/S0305004100001043)

On geometric quantization:

• David J. Simms, Nicholas Woodhouse: Lectures on Geometric Quantization, Lecture Notes in Physics 53, Springer (1976) [doi:10.1007/3-540-07860-6]

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