Symmetries in Physics : Proceedings of the International Symposium Held in Honor of Professor Marcos Moshinsky at Cocoyoc, Morelos, México, June 3–7, 1991

This volume gives a borad overview on symmetry methods ypplied to molecular and nuclear physics, to particle physics, decay processes, and phase space dynamics. The thoroughly edited contributions should be of interest not only to scientists but also to thos that want to see how symmetry considerations are put to work in twentieth century physics. Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv Group Theory and the Harmonic Oscillator: The Work of Marcos Moshinsky....Pages 1-27 Generalizing the BCS Universal Constants to High-Temperature Superconductivity....Pages 28-34 Fermion Clustering in an Exactly-Soluble N -Fermion Model for Hadronic, Nuclear and Superconductivity Physics....Pages 35-48 The Scattering Approach to Quantum Electronic Transport....Pages 49-60 Symmetry-Avoided Crossings and their Role in the Catalytic Activity of Transition Metals....Pages 61-83 The Symplectic Model and Potential-Energy-Surfaces....Pages 84-99 The SU(3) Generalization of Racah’s SU(2 j + 1) ⊃ SU(2) Group-Subgroup Embedding....Pages 100-134 Scaling and Universality in the Shock Compression of Condensed Matter....Pages 135-154 Deriving Nuclei from Quarks....Pages 155-163 Binding Energies of Nuclei and Atoms....Pages 164-175 The Relativistic Oscillator and Mass Formulas....Pages 176-184 Relativistic Equations in External Fields....Pages 185-198 A Parallelism Between Quantum Gravity and the IR Limit in QCD (Emergence of Hadron and Nuclear Symmetries)....Pages 199-212 On Rainich-Misner-Wheeler Conditions in Nonlinear Electrodynamics....Pages 213-221 Hamiltonian Formulation of a Simple Covariant Harmonic Oscillator for Bosons and Fermions....Pages 222-238 Doorway States in Classical Physics....Pages 239-251 Resonant States and the Decay Process....Pages 252-272 The Decay Process: An Exactly Soluble Example and its Implications....Pages 273-292 Moshinsky Functions, Resonances and Tunneling....Pages 293-310 Nonstationary Oscillator in Quantum Mechanics....Pages 311-324 Symmetry and Dynamical Lie Algebras in Classical and Quantum Mechanics....Pages 325-348 Canonical Transformations in Mechanics vis-à-vis Those in Optics....Pages 349-381 Science and Technology in Latin America....Pages 382-390 Back Matter....Pages 391-392