nLab Eugene Wigner

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Selected writings

On group theory and its application in quantum physics:

• Eugene P. Wigner: Gruppentheorie und ihre Anwendung auf die Quantenmechanik der Atomspektren, Springer (1931) [doi:10.1007/978-3-663-02555-9, pdf]

• Eugene P. Wigner: Group theory: And its application to the quantum mechanics of atomic spectra, 5, Academic

  Press (1959) [doi:978-0-12-750550-3]

See also:

• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences

Co-introducing Jordan algebras as algebras of quantum observables:

• Pascual Jordan, John von Neumann, Eugene Wigner, On an algebraic generalization of the quantum mechanical formalism, Ann. Math. 35 (1934) 29-64 [jstor:1968117, doi:10.1007/978-3-662-02781-3_21]

Introducing the notion of superselection sectors in quantum field theory (in a context similar to the Wigner classification of fundamental particles):

• Gian-Carlo Wick, Eugene Wigner, Arthur Wightman: The intrinsic parity of elementary particles, Phys. Rev. 88 (1952) 101-105 [doi;10.1103/PhysRev.88.101, pdf]

Related entries

• time-reversal symmetry

• Wigner's theorem

• Wigner classification

• group contraction

• interpretation of quantum mechanics

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