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Dyke Acland
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Does there exist an $A$ such that $\mathfrak{su}(3) \simeq A \otimes \mathfrak{su}(2)$

I'm in the middle of trying to prove something at the moment and am looking for a decomposition of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{su}(3)$ as a tensor product of $\mathfrak{su}(2)$ and something else, ie, an algebra $A$ such that $$ \mathfrak{su}(3) \simeq A \otimes \mathfrak{su}(2), $$ or some such result. Does anyone know of anything?

Dyke Acland
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