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$U(N)$ & $SU(N)$ : What's the conceptual difference in Gauge Theory?
I know the mathematical difference that one means $ absolutevalue(det) = 1$ and one means det = 1 (rotation) and that ones the subgroup of the other and so on.
But:
has a local/gauged $SU(3)$ ...