Complementary group resolution of the SU(n) outer multiplicity problem. I. The Littlewood rules and a complementary U(2n−2) group structure

DOI10.1063/1.532555zbMATH Open0935.81034arXivquant-ph/9704014OpenAlexW3121158457MaRDI QIDQ4701508FDOQ4701508

Authors: Feng Pan, J. P. Draayer 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A complementary group to SU(n) is found that realizes all features of the Littlewood rule for Kronecker products of SU(n) representations. This is accomplished by considering a state of SU(n) to be a special Gel'fand state of the complementary group {cal U}(2n-2). The labels of {cal U}(2n-2) can be used as the outer multiplicity labels needed to distinguish multiple occurrences of irreducible representations (irreps) in the SU(n) imes SU(n)downarrow SU(n) decomposition that is obtained from the Littlewood rule. Furthermore, this realization can be used to determine SU(n)supset SU(n-1) imes U(1) Reduced Wigner Coefficients (RWCs) and Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients (CGCs) of SU(n), using algebraic or numeric methods, in either the canonical or a noncanonical basis. The method is recursive in that it uses simpler RWCs or CGCs with one symmetric irrep in conjunction with standard recoupling procedures. New explicit formulae for the multiplicity for SU(3) and SU(4) are used to illustrate the theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9704014

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zbMATH Keywords

irreducible representationsClebsch-Gordan coefficientsmultiplicitiesKronecker productsisoscalar factorsWigner coefficientsreduced Wigner coefficientscomplementary group to \(\text{SU}(n)\)Littlewood rulesspecial Gel'fand state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05)

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