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Representations of Compact Groups

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Lie Groups

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In this introduction, we give the basic definitions of representation theory, followed by a summary of the main results for compact (Lie) groups.

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Duistermaat, J.J., Kolk, J.A.C. (2000). Representations of Compact Groups. In: Lie Groups. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56936-4_4

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