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   * See page 178 in Moonshine beyond the Monster by Terry Gannon   * See page 178 in Moonshine beyond the Monster by Terry Gannon
  
-**Important Examples:** 
  
-  * The classical Galilean group needs to be extended by the introduction of a central charge, called //mass//, and this yields the Bargmann group. (This is shown very nicely in QUANTIZATION ON A LIE GROUP: HIGHER-ORDER POLARIZATIONS by V. Aldaya, J. Guerrero and G. Marmo). 
-  * The standard spatial rotation group $SO(3)$ needs to be extended by $\mathbb{Z}_2$,​ which yields $SU(2)$, because otherwise we are not able to describe spin $\frac{1}{2}$ particles. 
-  * The algebra of fermionic non-Abelian charge densitites needs to be extended to the Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra (See [[http://​physics.stackexchange.com/​a/​76653/​37286|this answer]]) 
  
    
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---> Example1# 
  
 +--> Galilean group -> Bargmann group#
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 +The classical Galilean group needs to be extended by the introduction of a central charge, called //mass//, and this yields the Bargmann group. (This is shown very nicely in QUANTIZATION ON A LIE GROUP: HIGHER-ORDER POLARIZATIONS by V. Aldaya, J. Guerrero and G. Marmo).
    
 <-- <--
  
---> ​Example2:#+--> ​SO(3) -> SU(2)# 
 + 
 +The standard spatial rotation group $SO(3)$ needs to be extended by $\mathbb{Z}_2$,​ which yields $SU(2)$, because otherwise we are not able to describe spin $\frac{1}{2}$ particles. 
 +  
 +<-- 
 + 
 + 
 +--> Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra#
  
 +The algebra of fermionic non-Abelian charge densitites needs to be extended to the Mickelsson-Faddeev algebra (See [[http://​physics.stackexchange.com/​a/​76653/​37286|this answer]])
    
 <-- <--
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