Mac Lane method in the investigation of magnetic translation groups

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(97)84885-9zbMATH Open0888.20028arXivcond-mat/9803186OpenAlexW3103858465MaRDI QIDQ1373567FDOQ1373567

Authors: Wojciech Florek 

Publication date: 1 April 1998

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Central extensions of the three-dimensional translation group T=Z^3 by the unitary group U(1) (a group of factors) are considered within the frame of the Mac~Lane method. All nonzero vectors t in T are considered to be generators of T. This choice leads to very illustrative relations between the Mac~Lane method and Zak's approach to magnetic translation groups. It is shown that factor systems introduced by Zak and Brown can be realized only for the unitary group U(1) and for some of its finite subgroups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9803186

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zbMATH Keywords

central extensionsgeneratorsunitary groupsfinite subgroupsfactor systemsmagnetic translation groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups (20E22) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Other geometric groups, including crystallographic groups (20H15)

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