Abstract
A preliminary analysis of irreducible unitary representations of SL(3,R) is given using O(3) shift operator techniques similar to those used for treating SU(3) in an O(3) basis. A full analysis is given of the Delta l=2 representations, for which minimum l values of 0, 1/2 and 1 are found, but not the lmin=3/2 representations proposed by Biedenharn et al. (1972).

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