Thursday, 21 December 2017

group theory - What is the weight system for these rmSU(5) representations?


I need to work out the weight systems for the fundamental representation 5 and the conjugate representation ¯5. I'm not clear what this means. The 5 representation is of course just the representation of SU(5) by itself. After picking a Cartan subalgebra as the diagonal matrices with zero trace, we can of course see that the roots are LiLj where Li picks out the ith element on the diagonal, and the weights are simply Li in this case.


It is supposed to be the case that I can use the weight systems of representations to show for instance that 55=1015.




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