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We investigate when an irreducible finite-dimensional representation of a Lie superalgebra is orthosymplectic. Then we turn to basic classical Lie superalgebras and give the conditions for orthosymplecticity in terms of Kac-Dynkin labels.
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Van Der Jeugt, J. Orthosymplectic representations of Lie superalgebras. Lett Math Phys 14, 285–291 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402137
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402137