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I'm looking for a book or introductory article, that explains branching rules in representation theory of real Lie groups. When a Lie group has a set of irreducible representations, I'd like to know how these representations decompose into irreducible representations of a subgroup. I heard of "Symmetry, representations, and invariants" by Goodman and Wallach and "Representation Theory" by Fulton and Harris, but I couldn't get an account on the special cases I'm interested in, which are $U(1) \to SU(2)$ and $SO(4) \to SO(5)$. I know that $U(1) \cong \operatorname{Spin}(2, \mathbb{R})$ and $SU(2) \cong \operatorname{Spin}(3, \mathbb{R})$, but Goodman/Wallach and Fulton/Harris only seem to treat $\operatorname{Spin}(n, \mathbb{C})$ and $SO(n, \mathbb{C})$.

I'm looking for a book or introductory article, that explains branching rules in representation theory of Lie groups. When a Lie group has a set of irreducible representations, I'd like to know how these representations decompose into irreducible representations of a subgroup. I heard of "Symmetry, representations, and invariants" by Goodman and Wallach and "Representation Theory" by Fulton and Harris, but I couldn't get an account on the special cases I'm interested in, which are $U(1) \to SU(2)$ and $SO(4) \to SO(5)$.

I'm looking for a book or introductory article, that explains branching rules in representation theory of real Lie groups. When a Lie group has a set of irreducible representations, I'd like to know how these representations decompose into irreducible representations of a subgroup. I heard of "Symmetry, representations, and invariants" by Goodman and Wallach and "Representation Theory" by Fulton and Harris, but I couldn't get an account on the special cases I'm interested in, which are $U(1) \to SU(2)$ and $SO(4) \to SO(5)$. I know that $U(1) \cong \operatorname{Spin}(2, \mathbb{R})$ and $SU(2) \cong \operatorname{Spin}(3, \mathbb{R})$, but Goodman/Wallach and Fulton/Harris only seem to treat $\operatorname{Spin}(n, \mathbb{C})$ and $SO(n, \mathbb{C})$.

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Manuel Bärenz
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  • 49

What is a good introduction to branching rules in representation theory?

I'm looking for a book or introductory article, that explains branching rules in representation theory of Lie groups. When a Lie group has a set of irreducible representations, I'd like to know how these representations decompose into irreducible representations of a subgroup. I heard of "Symmetry, representations, and invariants" by Goodman and Wallach and "Representation Theory" by Fulton and Harris, but I couldn't get an account on the special cases I'm interested in, which are $U(1) \to SU(2)$ and $SO(4) \to SO(5)$.