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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2024 4 c Solution by
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Use the standard chain ordering of the five simple roots of . A Young diagram of row lengths has highest weight Dynkin labels . A full column of six boxes can be removed because it is the trivial determinant representation. The required data areIn the same order, the Young tableaux areEach upper index transforms by , and each lower index by . In particular is the complex Adjoint representation. The column of five boxes can be represented either by or by the totally antisymmetric tensor , using the invariant six-index alternating tensor:Thus it really is the conjugate representation, rather than a second independent six-dimensional choice. Similarly converting the lower index of into five alternating upper indices gives the displayed hook Young diagram; the removed trace would be its full six-box column component.
The dimension counts areThe first two count independent entries of symmetric tensors and antisymmetric tensors; the last removes one trace from a mixed tensor. The hook-content formula independently gives these dimensions from the Young diagrams.
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