In
mathematics
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and
theoretical physics, a bifundamental representation is a
representation
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obtained as a
tensor product of two
fundamental or
antifundamental representations.
For example, the ''MN''-dimensional representation (''M'',''N'') of the group
:
is a bifundamental representation.
These representations occur in
quiver diagram
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s.
Abstract algebra
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