Casimir operators of the exceptional group F4_the chain B4 - F4 - D13.pdfVIP

MAD/TH/93-9 Casimir operators of the exceptional group F : the chain B ? F ? D 4 4 4 13 Adam M. Bincer Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 3 9 9 1 c e Expressions are given for the Casimir operators of the exceptional group F4 in a D concise form similar to that used for the classical groups. The chain B4 ? F4 ? D13 6 1 is used to label the generators of F4 in terms of the adjoint and spinor representations 1 v of B4 and to express the 26-dimensional representation of F4 in terms of the de?ning 8 4 1 representation of D13 . Casimir operators of any degree are obtained and it is shown 2 1 that a basis consists of the operators of degree 2, 6, 8 and 12. 3 9 / h t - p e h I. INTRODUCTION : v i X r Although a general formula exists for the quadratic Casimir operator for any group this a is not the case for operators of higher degree. E?cient expressions have been developed over the years for all the Casimir operators of the classical groups, but not for the exceptional groups. Berdjis [1] gives the desired Casimir operators implicitly. Until recently explicit results were available only for G . The degree 6 Casimir of G was given in the work of 2 2 Hughes and Van der Jeugt [2] by an expression involving 29 terms and in the work by Bincer and Riesselmann [3] by an expression involving 23 terms. These results were obtained using computers and leave something to be desired. Quite recently I have developed a di?erent approach and obtained for G2 results very much alike to those for the classical groups [4]. Moreover it would seem that the same 1 approach should work for the other exceptional groups. In the present work I address the group F4 and leave the E6,7,8 for a future paper. This paper is organized as follows. In the next Sec. after explaining the use of the chain B ? F ? D I obtain concise expressions for the Casimir operators o