Can somebody explain in a simple way why, talking about representations $$3\otimes3\otimes3=1\oplus8\oplus8\oplus10~?$$
Here $3$ and $\bar{3}$ are the fundamental and anti-fundamental of $SU(3)$, in this case.
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3Related $SU(3)$ post: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/10403/2451 especially the answer https://physics.stackexchange.com/a/14586/2451 . Do you know Clebsch-Gordan decomposition of $SU(2)$ irreps? See e.g. https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/16098/2451 . – Qmechanic Mar 21 '13 at 17:29
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4I found the group theory appendix (B) in Zee, Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell, to be helpful for this stuff. – Michael Mar 22 '13 at 00:19
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Removed subquestions that are duplicates in v3: https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/147243/2451 , https://physics.stackexchange.com/q/89173/2451 and links therein. – Qmechanic Jun 19 '15 at 21:02
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\begin{equation} \boldsymbol{3}\boldsymbol{\otimes}\boldsymbol{3}\boldsymbol{\otimes}\boldsymbol{3}= \boldsymbol{1}\boldsymbol{\oplus}\boldsymbol{10}\boldsymbol{\oplus} \boldsymbol{8}^{\boldsymbol{\prime}}\boldsymbol{\oplus}\boldsymbol{8} \end{equation}
We talk about this because it explains the structure of a number of baryons in Particle Physics made from three quarks : 1 singlet - 1 decuplet - 2 octets, that is 27 baryons in total.
I refer to my answer in the following link for more details :
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1091189
