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How to Tell Operations, Operators, Functionals, and Representations Apart

July 21, 2017
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 All these concepts belong to the toolbox of physicists. I read them quite often on our forum and their usage is sometimes a bit confusing.…
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Linear Representations and Why Precision is Important in Math

November 16, 2016
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First of all: What is a representation? It is the description of a mathematical object like a Lie group or a Lie algebra by its actions on another space…
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