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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2019 3 e Solution by
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The first coordinate is fixed by the embedded SU(5), while the last five transform in its defining representation. Therefore , and taking the dual representation gives .
For the symmetric square, the fixed-fixed component is one trivial representation, the fixed-five mixed components give , and the symmetric five-five block is . For the exterior square, the fixed-fixed component vanishes, the mixed components give , and the antisymmetric five-five block is . Finally restrict , using .
The five SU6 tensor branchings to SU5 are thusThe symbols on the left and right refer to different groups: the left-hand one is the SU(6) exterior square, whereas the right-hand one is the SU(5) symmetric square. The dimension checks are , , and .
Explicitly, in the Adjoint representation the lower-right traceless five-by-five block gives ; the lower-left column and upper-right row give and ; and the diagonal direction gives the remaining trivial representation.
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