English Explanatory Dictionary

Lie group

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any group that is a smooth manifold and whose group operations are differentiable.

Word forms

Lie group Lie groups

Etymology

Named for Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie.

Related words

group of Lie type Lie algebra

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