Timeline for Why the Gell-Mann matrices in the SU(3)-model need to be trace orthogonal ?
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| Feb 26, 2012 at 1:57 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | It's simply a choice which simplifies calculations. Choosing an orthonormal basis for a vector space simplifies any calculation involving an inner product, of which in computing Feynman diagrams there are a-plenty. (Is this really a question for MO?) | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | HAJV | Of course, it is a choice. Any idea why G-M preferred or required the one he chose? | |
| Feb 24, 2012 at 19:28 | history | answered | H. Arponen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |