"special unitary group" meaning in English

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          "text": "1992 [Prentice-Hall], George H. Duffey, Applied Group Theory: For Physicists and Chemists, 2015, Dover, Unabridged Republication, page 284,\nThe special unitary group in two dimensions is represented by the 2 X 2 unitary matrices whose determinants equal 1."
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          "text": "The group is called the special unitary group in two dimensions, or SU(2), because it acts on matrices of degree 2.",
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          "text": "2004, Roger Cooke (translator), Vladimir I. Arnold, Lectures on Partial Differential Equations, [1997, Lekstii ob uravneniyakh s chastnymi proizvodnymi], Springer, page 81, When n = 3, the group of rotations SO(3) is isomorphic to the real three-dimensional projective space ℝP³. It has a two-sheeted covering by the three-dimensional sphere (the group of unit quaternions), which in turn is isomorphic to the special unitary group SU(2), also known as the spin group of order 3, as in the following diagram"
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