Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering : A Comprehensive Guide

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REPRESENTATION THEORY


(because of orthogonality) have characters 1, 1, 1,−1. The summation rules
and orthogonality require the other two character sets to be 2, (−1+


5)/2,


(− 1 −



5)/2, 0 and 2, (− 1 −


5)/2, (−1+



5)/2, 0. Note thatRhas order 5 and
that, e.g., (−1+


5)/2=exp(2πi/5) + exp(8πi/5).
29.13 The doublet irrep E (characters 2,−1, 0) appears in both 432 and 32 and so
is unsplit. The triplet T 1 (characters 3, 0, 1) splits under 32 into doublet E
(characters 2,−1, 0) and singlet A 1 (characters 1, 1, 1).

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