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)

(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

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

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