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Spinor Representation of $O(3)$ for $S_4$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-01-29 v3

Abstract

All possible permutations in the discrete S4S_4 group are classified by three rotation angles associated with the orthogonal group O(3)O(3). We construct a spinor representation 2D{\bf 2}_D of O(3)O(3), which is transformed by three 4×\times4 matrices corresponding to three Pauli matrices in SO(3)SO(3). An irreducible decomposition of 2D2D{\bf 2}_D \otimes {\bf 2}_D supplies a vector representation of {\bf 3} of O(3)O(3), thereby, of S4S_4. Our construction is consistent with the mathematical fact that O(3)=SO(3)×Z2O(3)=SO(3)\times \boldsymbol{Z}_2. The Z2\boldsymbol{Z}_2 parity in the spinorial space is described by a block off-diagonal matrix as the spinorial parity operator, whose eigenvalues are ±1\pm 1 consistent with Z2\boldsymbol{Z}_2.

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@article{arxiv.1810.02034,
  title  = {Spinor Representation of $O(3)$ for $S_4$},
  author = {Teruyuki Kitabayashi and Masaki Yasuè},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.02034},
  year   = {2019}
}

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