Lie group

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A Lie group is a mathematical structure that is both a smooth manifold and a group, where the group operations are differentiable and used to study continuous symmetries.

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Lie groups 17
Lie group canonical 4
Heisenberg group 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf differentiable manifold
group
mathematical structure
smooth manifold
topological group
appearsIn gauge theory
general relativity
particle physics
quantum mechanics
string theory
dimension finite-dimensional (for finite-dimensional Lie groups)
fieldOfStudy Lie theory
differential geometry
mathematics
representation theory
theoretical physics
generalizationOf continuous groups of transformations
matrix groups
hasAssociatedObject Cartan subgroup
Weyl group (for semisimple Lie groups)
linked to: Weyl group

maximal compact subgroup
root system (for semisimple Lie groups)
universal covering group
hasExample Heisenberg group
circle group U(1)
complex numbers under addition
general linear group GL(n,C)
general linear group GL(n,R)
nonzero real numbers under multiplication
real numbers under addition
special linear group SL(n,C)
special linear group SL(n,R)
special orthogonal group SO(n)
special unitary group SU(n)
hasPart Lie algebra
hasProperty Hausdorff
continuous symmetries
group operation is smooth
inversion map is smooth
inversion map is smooth diffeomorphism
locally Euclidean
multiplication map is smooth
second countable
hasType abelian Lie group
compact Lie group
connected Lie group
finite-dimensional Lie group
infinite-dimensional Lie group
nilpotent Lie group
non-compact Lie group
reductive Lie group
semisimple Lie group
simply connected Lie group
solvable Lie group
namedAfter Sophus Lie
relatedConcept Lie algebra
Lie group action
Lie group representation
Lie homomorphism
Lie ring
Lie semigroup
Lie subgroup
studiedBy Sophus Lie
studiedIn 19th century
usedFor classification of symmetries in physics
representation theory of groups
study of continuous symmetries
study of differential equations

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Sophus Lie hasConceptNamedAfter Lie group
Sjur Lie fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Noether's theorem usesConcept Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Poincaré group category Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Harish-Chandra fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Erlangen Program relatedTo Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Gruppentheorie und Quantenmechanik topic Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Weyl quantization usesConcept Heisenberg group
linked to: Lie group
Élie Cartan fieldOfWork Lie groups
subject linked to: Cartan
linked to: Lie group
Lie theory fieldOfStudy Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Cartan decomposition appliesTo Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Claude Chevalley fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Lie sphere geometry usesMethod Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Lie sphere geometry basedOn Lie group actions
linked to: Lie group
Lie pseudogroup generalizes Lie group
Theorie der Transformationsgruppen mainSubject Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
Marius Sophus Lie knownFor Lie groups
subject linked to: Marius
linked to: Lie group
Sophus Lie hasNameInMathematics Lie group
subject linked to: Sophus
Lie bracket relatedConcept Lie group
Harish-Chandra fieldOfWork Lie groups
subject linked to: Harish
linked to: Lie group
Nolan Wallach fieldOfWork Lie groups
linked to: Lie group
differential geometry studies Lie groups
linked to: Lie group