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A general formalism for describing unitary representations of noncompact semisimple groups is presented. It is applied to describe some general properties of representations ofSU(6, 6), of possible interest for the classification of elementary particles.
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This work was supported by the office of Naval Research NONR 3656/69.
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Hermann, R. Group representations and creation operators. Commun.Math. Phys. 2, 78–93 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01773344
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