Killing-normalized SU(2) quadratic Casimir ($C_{\kappa }=\frac{1}{2}j(j+1)I$)

With Hermitian angular-momentum generators $[J_a,J_b]=i{ϵ}_{abc}{J}_c$, the Killing form is $2{\delta }_{ab}$ and its inverse contraction is $C_{\kappa }=\frac{1}{2}{\sum }_a{J}_a^2$. Equivalently the anti-Hermitian basis $T_a=-i{J}_a$ has Killing form $-2{\delta }_{ab}$ and gives the same operator. In the complex highest-weight basis, $C_{\kappa }=H^2/8+(E^{+}{E}^{-}+E^{-}{E}^{+})/4$. It acts on spin $j$ by $j(j+1)/2$, so it differs in normalization from the usual angular-momentum quadratic Casimir operator.