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Definitions
Subgroup: members of larger group which
have the property of a group
Class: members of a group which are
generated by the construction
C = X i1YX i where X i and Y are group elements
Representations of a group
A representation of a group is a set of matrices (one
for each group element) -- ( A), ( B)... that satisfies
the multiplication table of the group. The dimension
of the matrices is called the dimension of the
representation.
1/21/2015 PHY 752 Spring 2015 -- Lecture 3 7
Example:
A two-dimensional representation is
1 0 1 0
E
3
A
3
0 1 0 1
1 3 1
3
3 B 2 2 3 C 2 2
3 1 3 1
2 2 2 2
1 3 1
3
3 D 2 2
3 F 2 2
2
2 2
3 1 3 1
2
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
E 0 1 0 A 0 1 0 B 0 2 2
1 3
0 0 1 0 0 1 1
0 2
3
2
1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
C 0 12 2 D 0 12
3 3
2
F 0 2 2
1 3
1 1
0 2
3
2 0 2
3
12 0 2
3
2
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