31640 - Advanced Mathematical Methods of Physics

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Physics (cod. 8025)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the Course the student possesses some tools necessary for the study of the advanced theretical physics. The student acquires some competences, analytical and geometrical, useful for a physicist theoretician.

Course contents

Differentiable manifolds. Tensors. Lie derivatives. Lie groups and Lie algebras. Differential forms. Affine connection and Riemann geometry.

Readings/Bibliography

Lecturer's notes.

Teaching methods

Lectures.

Assessment methods

Oral exams.

Office hours

See the website of Alexandr Kamenchtchik