automorphism
English
Etymology
auto- + morphism
Noun
automorphism (plural automorphisms)
- (algebra) An isomorphism of a mathematical object or system of objects onto itself.
- 1971, Norman Biggs, Finite Groups of Automorphisms: Course Given at the University of Southampton, Cambridge University Press, page 25:
- Since every linear automorphism of V fixes 0 our interest in the transitivity properties of GL(V) is confined to its action on V* = V - {0}. GL(V) is transitive on V* since any two elements of V* may be chosen as the initial members of two ordered bases; it is not in general 2-transitive because there is no linear automorphism taking an independent pair to a dependent pair.
- 2005, Maninda Agrawal, Nitin Saxena, “Automorpisms of Finite Rings and Applications to Complexity of Problems”, in Volker Diekert, Bruno Durand, editors, STACS 2005: 22nd Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science, Springer, LNCS 3404, page 1:
- 2014, Alexei Belov, Leonid Bokut, Louis Rowen, Jie-Tai Yu, “The Jacobian Conjecture, Together with Specht and Burnside-Type Problems”, in Ivan Cheltsov, Ciro Ciliberto, Hubert Flenner, James McKernan, Yuri G. Prokhorov, Mikhail Zaidenberg, editors, Automorphisms in Birational and Affine Geometry, Springer, page 274:
- A tame automorphism is a product of elementary automorphisms, and a non-tame automorphism is called wild. The “tame automorphism problem” asks whether any automorphism is tame.
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- The ascription to others of one's own characteristics.
Usage notes
- (algebra):
- An automorphism is characterised by the structure it preserves, which is usually specified as an object type. Thus one may speak of a group automorphism or ring automorphism.
- The identity mapping is sometimes called the trivial automorphism; any other automorphism may then be called a nontrivial automorphism.
Synonyms
- (isomorphism of a mathematical object or system of objects onto itself): self-map
- (ascription to others of one's own characteristics): projection
Hypernyms
- (algebra): isomorphism, endomorphism
Hyponyms
- (algebra): inner automorphism, outer automorphism, Möbius transformation
Derived terms
- automorphism group
Translations
isomorphism of a mathematical object or system of objects onto itself
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ascription to others of one's own characteristics
See also
- self-map
Further reading
Automorphism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)