Timeline for $SU(2)$ and the three sphere
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| Dec 24, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | Daniel Asimov | It's not so much that you also need det(x) = 1, as that this is exactly the same as saying |a|<sup>2</sup> + |b|<sup>2</sup> = 1. | |
| Jan 15, 2010 at 15:12 | vote | accept | Aston Smythe | ||
| Jan 15, 2010 at 5:09 | comment | added | MTS | Of course you also need that $\mathrm{det}x = 1$ to get that form for the matrix. | |
| Jan 15, 2010 at 5:08 | history | answered | MTS | CC BY-SA 2.5 |