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Graduate Why the Casimir operator is proportional to the unit matrix ?
Now that you say that, I recollect I also have heard about that lemma. Now I can relate to. Thanks a lot !- Wonchu
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Graduate Why the Casimir operator is proportional to the unit matrix ?
Hello, now I'm reading Peskin Shroeder. I have a question about the Casimir operator on page 500 in Chapter 15. From the following eq, ## \ \ \ [T^b , T^a T^a ] = 0 \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (15.91) ## ## T^2(=T^a T^a) ## is an invariant of the algebra. Thus the author concludes that ##T^2## is...- Wonchu
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