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This document contains the questions for an exam on Group Representations II taught by Dr. Timothy Murphy on April 13, 1993 from 2-4 pm. The exam covers defining measures on compact spaces and proving Haar's Theorem on invariant measures. It also involves determining which groups are compact and connected, the conjugacy classes and representations of SU(2), a surjective homomorphism from SU(2) to SO(3), and the simple representations of SO(3) and O(3). The final question is about classifying representations of compact groups as real, essentially complex or quaternionic and determining which category the representations D(j) of SU(2) fall into.

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Exam93 2

This document contains the questions for an exam on Group Representations II taught by Dr. Timothy Murphy on April 13, 1993 from 2-4 pm. The exam covers defining measures on compact spaces and proving Haar's Theorem on invariant measures. It also involves determining which groups are compact and connected, the conjugacy classes and representations of SU(2), a surjective homomorphism from SU(2) to SO(3), and the simple representations of SO(3) and O(3). The final question is about classifying representations of compact groups as real, essentially complex or quaternionic and determining which category the representations D(j) of SU(2) fall into.

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Course 424

Group Representations II
Dr Timothy Murphy
G.M.B.

Tuesday, 13 April 1993

14:0016:00

Answer as many questions as you can; all carry the same number
of marks.
Unless otherwise stated, all representations are finite-dimensional
over C.
1. Define a measure on a compact space. State carefully, and outline
the main steps in the proof of, Haars Theorem on the existence of an
invariant measure on a compact group.
Prove that every representation of a compact group is semisimple.
2. Which of the following groups are (a) compact, (b) connected:
SO(2), O(2), U(2), SU(2), Sp(2), GL(2, R), SL(2, R), GL(2, C), SL(2, C), T2 ?
(Note: Justify your answer in each case; no marks will be given for
unsupported assertions)
3. Determine the conjugacy classes in SU(2); and prove that this group
has just one simple representation of each dimension.
Find the character of the representation D(j) of dimensions 2j + 1
(where j = 0, 12 , 1, 23 , . . .).
Express each product D(i)D(j) as a sum of simple representations
D(k).
4. Show that there exists a surjective homomorphism
: SU(2) SO(3)
with finite kernel.
Hence or otherwise determine all simple representations of SO(3).
Determine also all simple representations of O(3).
5. Explain the division of simple representations of a finite or compact
group G into real, essentially complex and quaternionic.
Determine into which of these 3 categories the representations D(j) of
SU(2) fall.

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