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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 ii Paper 4 19I Solution by
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The special unitary group in two dimensions isLet be its defining group representation, and for letthe homogeneous polynomial representation of SU2 on homogeneous polynomials of degree in two variables. It has degree of a representation . The representations are pairwise nonisomorphic, continuous, finite-dimensional irreducible representations, and the classification of finite-dimensional representations of SU2 says that this is the complete list.
Every is conjugate to with . The monomial basis of gives the character of the homogeneous polynomial representation of SU2Writing , this is , interpreted by continuity when . The Clebsch-Gordan decomposition for SU2 is
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