That sounds like a good, achievable idea. I'll look into it. My group 
theory is a little rusty, but not too bad.

On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 12:53:01 PM UTC-6, Kalevi Suominen wrote:
>
>
>
> On Friday, February 10, 2017 at 7:54:27 PM UTC+2, Ian George wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> So, first, I'm just getting started with Sympy, so if I'm missing 
>> something obvious, forgive me.
>>
>> The Lie Algebra module only seems to handle the A-G groups. Wouldn't it 
>> be prudent to add on SO(3), SU(2), U(1), stuff that tends to be used by 
>> physicists/representation theorists more often? I'm checking out the 
>> physics module, too, but so far haven't found anything. 
>>
>> As a side note, that might be a good first step toward contributing, 
>> seeing if you can do something with representation theory here. Of course, 
>> I've got to brush up on that, before I even consider it, having been away 
>> from physics for a while...
>>
>
> I could not find it explicitly pointed out, but it seems to me too that 
> only complex simple Lie algebras have been dealt with. It would be useful 
> to have an implementation of real simple Lie algebras as well. You are 
> welcome to contribute.
>
> Kalevi Suominen
>

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