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

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

Dyke Acland
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