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Lie algebra en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /liː.ældʒɨbɹə/

Etymology

Named in honor of Sophus Lie (1842–1899), a Norwegian mathematician, in the 1930s by Hermann Weyl.

Meanings

  1. An algebra over a field whose bilinear product is alternating (or, equivalently for a bilinear product, anticommutative) and satisfies the Jacobi identity. Such a bilinear product is called a Lie bracket.

Forms

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Lie algebras Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Lie superalgebra · Lie coalgebra · Lie bialgebra

Translations (7)

de Lie-Algebra (algebraic structure) · pl algebra Liego (algebraic structure) · sh Liejeva algebra (algebraic structure) · bg алгебра на Ли (algebraic structure) · ja リー代数 (algebraic structure) · fi Lien algebra (algebraic structure) · ru а́лгебра Ли (algebraic structure)

wikipedia: Hermann Weyl · wikipedia: Sophus Lie