Given the adjoint 24 of SU(5), we have
24⊗24=1s⊕24s⊕24a⊕75s⊕126a⊕¯126a⊕200s,
where each representation is denoted by its dimension and the subscripts s and a denote symmetric and antisymmetric respectively. Naively, I would say we have 7 quartic invariants:
(24⊗24)1s(24⊗24)1s+(24⊗24)24s(24⊗24)24s+(24⊗24)24a(24⊗24)24a+(24⊗24)75s(24⊗24)75s+(24⊗24)126a(24⊗24)126a+(24⊗24)¯126a(24⊗24)¯126a+(24⊗24)200s(24⊗24)200s,
because
1s⊗1s=124s⊗24s=175s⊗75s=1etc.
Nevertheless, in all SU(5) papers only two quartic terms appear in the 24 Higgs potential. How can I compute how many and which of these 7 terms are linearly independent?
This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2015-10-05 20:44 (UTC), posted by SE-user JakobH