Lie algebra

Lie algebra

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː.ældʒɨbɹə/

Noun

Lie algebra (plural Lie algebras)

1. (mathematics) A linear algebra whose mathematical structure underlies a Lie group’s structure.[1]

Derived terms

• Lie bialgebra
• Lie coalgebra
• Lie superalgebra

Translations

vector space

Finnish: Lien algebra German: Lie-Algebra Japanese: リー代数 (rīdaisū) Russian: а́лгебра Ли f (álgebra Li) Serbo-Croatian: Roman: Liejeva algebra f

References

1. Douglas W. McKenzie (2015) An Elementary Introduction to Lie Algebras for Physicists‎, retrieved 2019-06-27