Thanks, David! I was scanning that document earlier, but I missed that part. That should definitely help.
On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 21:14:03 UTC+1, David Joyner wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Mary Clark > <mary.sp...@gmail.com<javascript:>> > wrote: > > > >> Just a question on terminology: > >> Are you talking about general commutation relations or just those for > the > >> standard lie algebra generators? > > > > > > Sorry, but could you clarify what you mean? For instance, what I'm > saying > > is that su(2), for example, has a basis consisting of 3 elements, say > u1, u2 > > and u3, and we know that [u1,u2] = 2(u3). But, for su(n) which has a > basis > > of n^2 - n elements, I can't find an algorithm or anything saying that > [u_i, > > u_j ] = f u_k for some constant f. > > > I think I see what you mean now. > They definitely exist. I have my books on this stuff at work but > googling I found this: > http://phyweb.lbl.gov/~rncahn/www/liealgebras/texall.pdf > Are the relations you want on page 48? > > > > > > > -- > > 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+un...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > To post to this group, send email to sy...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > 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.
