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Past exam of the groups and representations course of the University of Oxford 2025 1 d Solution by
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Write for the trivial representation, for the sign representation, and for the given two-dimensional group representation. Their matrix representations on the generators of a group arewith . The two eigenvalues of in are distinct, and exchanges its two eigenlines; no line is invariant under both. Thus is an irreducible representation. The dimensions already exhaust the sum of squares of irreducible representation dimensions, so this is the complete list.
Since , the character table isMultiplying characters and using character orthogonality gives every tensor product of group representations:For example . Explicit Clebsch-Gordan coefficients can be read from two doublets , :The first two combinations are invariant under and respectively even and odd under ; the last transforms by the displayed doublet matrices.
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