On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Mary Clark <mary.spritel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > As we all know, this is the first week of GSOC and I'm working on a Lie > algebra module. My blog is http://meclark256.wordpress.com/ > > Specifically I'd like to generate some discussion on the issue that I just > wrote about in this week's blog entry, on actual physical commutation > relations for specific Lie algebras. Quoted from my blog: > > What I am, however, running into difficulties about is generating the > commutation relations for su(n) in general. With the somewhat cursory look > I did into this specific issue when I was writing my application, I rather > thought that there was a well-defined relation or algorithm to generate the > commutation relations which I would then just implement. However, upon > really researching this, I’ve realised that there is no such algorithm. So,
Just a question on terminology: Are you talking about general commutation relations or just those for the standard lie algebra generators? > while I could have my code dispense the commutation relations for su(2) and > su(3) (which are probably the only cases when you would /really/ want the > actual, physical commuation relations between the basis elements) I don’t > know if this would be worthwhile. > > Specifically, do people think it'd be worthwhile to implement the > commutation relations for su(2) and su(3)? > > Mary > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sympy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sympy. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
