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This document contains the details of Course 424 Group Representations II, including the instructor Dr. Timothy Murphy, date and time of Friday, 8 March 1991 from 15:00-17:00. It lists 4 questions on the topics of compact groups, representations of compact and abelian groups, conjugacy classes in special unitary and orthogonal groups, and products of representations of SU(2).

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This document contains the details of Course 424 Group Representations II, including the instructor Dr. Timothy Murphy, date and time of Friday, 8 March 1991 from 15:00-17:00. It lists 4 questions on the topics of compact groups, representations of compact and abelian groups, conjugacy classes in special unitary and orthogonal groups, and products of representations of SU(2).

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Course 424

Group Representations II
Dr Timothy Murphy
Arts Block A5039

Friday, 8 March 1991

15:0017:00

Answer as many questions as you can; all carry the same number
of marks.
All representations are finite-dimensional over C.
1. Define a measure on a compact space. State carefully, but without
proof, Haars Theorem on the existence of an invariant measure on a
compact group. To what extent is such a measure unique?
Which of the following groups are (a) compact, (b) connected:
O(n), SO(n), U(n), SU(n), GL(n, R), SL(n, R), GL(n, C), SL(n, C)?
(Justify your answer in each case.)
Prove that every representation of a compact group is semisimple.
2. Prove that every simple representation of a compact abelian group is
1-dimensional and unitary.
Determine the simple representations of SO(2).
Determine also the simple representations of O(2).
3. Determine the conjugacy classes in SU(n).
Prove that SU(2) has just one simple representation of each dimension
1, 2, . . .; and determine the character of this representation.
If D(j) denotes the simple representation of SU(2) of dimension 2j +1,
for j = 0, 1/2, 1, . . ., express the product D(j)D(k) as a sum of D(j)s.
4. Determine the conjugacy classes in SO(n).
Prove that SO(3) has just one simple representation of each odd dimension 1, 3, 5, . . ..

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