Killing-normalized SU(2) quadratic Casimir

ID: killing-normalized-su-2-quadratic-casimir

With Hermitian angular-momentum generators , the Killing form is and its inverse contraction is . Equivalently the anti-Hermitian basis has Killing form and gives the same operator. In the complex highest-weight basis, . It acts on spin by , so it differs in normalization from the usual angular-momentum quadratic Casimir operator.

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