Dynkin diagram

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A graph with some edges drawn as double or triple lines, arising in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields, in the classification of Weyl groups and other finite reflection groups, and in other contexts.

Word forms

Dynkin diagram Dynkin diagrams

Etymology

After mathematician Eugene Dynkin.

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