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Particle physics and representation theory
There is a natural connection, first discovered by Eugene Wigner, between the properties of particles, the representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, and the symmetries of the universe. This postulate states that each particle is an irreducible representation of the symmetry group of the universe.
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