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This document contains the questions for an exam on group representations for the course "Group Representations IIa" taught by Dr. Timothy Murphy on Friday, April 9, 1999 from 4:00-5:30 PM. The exam contains 5 questions covering topics like measures on compact spaces, conjugacy classes and representations of SU(2) and SO(3), the division of representations into real, essentially complex and quaternionic, and the exterior product of representations.

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Exam99 2a

This document contains the questions for an exam on group representations for the course "Group Representations IIa" taught by Dr. Timothy Murphy on Friday, April 9, 1999 from 4:00-5:30 PM. The exam contains 5 questions covering topics like measures on compact spaces, conjugacy classes and representations of SU(2) and SO(3), the division of representations into real, essentially complex and quaternionic, and the exterior product of representations.

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Course 424

Group Representations IIa


Dr Timothy Murphy
Mathematics 1.8

Friday, 9 April 1999

16:0017:30

Answer as many questions as you can; all carry the same number
of marks.
All representations are finite-dimensional over C.
1. What is meant by a measure on a compact space X? What is meant
by saying that a measure on a compact group G is invariant? Sketch
the proof that every compact group G carries such a measure. To what
extent is this measure unique?
2. Determine the conjugacy classes in SU(2). Prove that SU(2) has just
one simple representation of each dimension 1, 2, 3, . . . ; and determine
the character of this representation.
3. Show that there exists a surjective homomorphism
: SU(2) SO(3)
with finite kernel.
Hence or otherwise determine all simple representations of SO(3).
4. Explain the division of simple representations of a compact group G
into real, essentially complex and quaternionic.
Show that the representations of SO(3) are all real.
5. Define the exterior product r of a representation .
Show that the character of 2 is given by

1
2 (g) =
(g)2 (g 2 ) .
2
Hence or otherwise show that if D(j) is the representation of SU(2) of
dimension 2j + 1 then
(
D(1) if j is integral
2 D(j) = D(2j 1) + D(2j 3) + +
.
D(0) if j is half-integral

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