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tomdodd4598
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Hey there,
I've recently been trying to get my head around Yang-Mills gauge theory and was just wandering: do the Pauli matrices for su(2), Gell-Mann matrices for su(3), etc. represent any important observable quantities? After all, they are Hermitian operators and act on the doublets and triplets of the theories, but have bizarre eigenvalues that I can't get my head around. If so, what are they, and if not, why not? What about the adjoint operators?
Thanks in advance :)
I've recently been trying to get my head around Yang-Mills gauge theory and was just wandering: do the Pauli matrices for su(2), Gell-Mann matrices for su(3), etc. represent any important observable quantities? After all, they are Hermitian operators and act on the doublets and triplets of the theories, but have bizarre eigenvalues that I can't get my head around. If so, what are they, and if not, why not? What about the adjoint operators?
Thanks in advance :)