Three light quarks have a six-dimensional single-quark spin-flavour space . A symmetric spatial ground state and the antisymmetric three-quark colour singlet require the symmetric cube of that space. Its dimension is , and restriction to flavour and spin gives a baryon decuplet of spin and a baryon octet of spin . The two mixed-permutation multiplicity spaces pair once in the symmetric sector, explaining why the two flavour-octet copies in the unconstrained tensor cube do not represent two distinct ground-state octets.

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