Simple Lie algebras and their representations (1/3)

by Christoph Horst

Wednesday 28 Mar 2012, 16:00 → 18:00 Europe/Berlin

SemRoom O1.435, Bldg. 1d (DESY)

Using the explicit example of su(3) (or rather sl(3,C)) we will recapitulate the upshot of Reinke's talk last week. Then we'll discuss the following topics: Dynkin diagrams and what they are good for; irreducible representations; branching rules, e.g. embedding of the Standard Model spectrum in a SU(5) GUT; tensor product decompositions, e.g. to describe invariant couplings in GUTs.