Projective Unitary Group - Examples

Examples

At n = 1, U(1) is abelian and so is equal to its center. Therefore PU(1) = U(1)/U(1) is a trivial group.

At n = 2, all being representable by unit norm quaternions, and PU(2) ≅ SO(3), via:

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