Bases for SU(3) irreps are constructed on a space of three-particle tensor
products of two-dimensional harmonic oscillator wave functions. The Weyl group
is represented as the symmetric group of permutations of the particle
coordinates of these space. Wigner functions for SU(3) are expressed as
products of SU(2) Wigner functions and matrix elements of Weyl transformations.
The constructions make explicit use of dual reductive pairs which are shown to
be particularly relevant to problems in optics and quantum interferometry.
@article{9811012,
author = {Rowe, D. J. and Sanders, B. C. and de Guise, H.},
title = {Representations of the Weyl group and Wigner functions for SU(3)},
journal = {arXiv},
volume = {1998},
number = {0},
year = {1998},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/9811012}
}
Rowe, D. J.; Sanders, B. C.; de Guise, H. Representations of the Weyl group and Wigner functions for SU(3). arXiv, Tome 1998 (1998) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/9811012/