Abstract
Abstract In celebration of David Pines's (70 + n)th birthday, this essay asks the question whether there is a truly fundamental relationship between the Hilbert spaces of a quantum theory and the representation theory of Lie algebras. In trying to sharpen this question we briefly review representation theory and then conclude with a well known example where the Hilbert space of a simple field theory is an irreducible representation of a Lie algebra.
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