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Spinors for Beginners 17: The spin 1/2 representations of SU(2) and SL(2C)

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0:00 Introduction + Review of SO(3)
1:39 Spin0 representation of SO(3)
4:16 No spin1/2 rep of SO(3)
5:04 SU(2) is the double cover of SO(3)
7:10 su(2) Lie Algebra
10:03 su(2) commutation relations
12:30 Exponentiating su(2) generators
15:50 Rotations of 720 degrees
18:40 Lorentz Group SO+(1,3)
20:44 SL(2,C) and sl(2,C)
25:26 Left and Right SL(2,C) representations
30:27 (1/2, 1/2) tensor product representation
34:39 Complexification of su(2) and sl(2,C)

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