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THE GEOMETRY OF THE EXCEPTIONAL LIE GROUPS
Tevian Dray
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Front Matter
Colophon
Preface
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Seminar Notes
\(\SO(2)\)
\(\SO(3)\)
\(\SU(2)\)
\(\SO(3,1)\)
The Cayley–Dickson Process
The Split Complex Numbers
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
\(\SU(2,\CC')\)
Representations of \(\su(2)\)
\(\su(3)\)
The Adjoint Representation
Roots
Properties of Roots
Dynkin Diagrams
Counting the Magic Squares
The Albert Algebra
Projective Lines
Projective Planes
\(\SO(4,2)\)
Conformal Groups
Back Matter
A
Appendix
Null Rotations over \(\HH'\otimes\CC\)
References
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THE GEOMETRY OF THE EXCEPTIONAL LIE GROUPS
Tevian Dray
Department of Mathematics
Oregon State University
tevian@math.oregonstate.edu
Last update: 2016
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