Concept information
Preferred term
Lie algebra
Definition
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In mathematics, a Lie algebra (pronounced /liː/ LEE) is a vector space together with an operation called the Lie bracket, an alternating bilinear map , that satisfies the Jacobi identity. Otherwise said, a Lie algebra is an algebra over a field where the multiplication operation is now called Lie bracket and has two additional properties: it is alternating and satisfies the Jacobi identity. The Lie bracket of two vectors and is denoted . The Lie bracket does not need to be associative, meaning that the Lie algebra can be non associative.
Given an associative algebra (like for example the space of square matrices), a Lie bracket can be and is often defined through the commutator, namely defining correctly defines a Lie bracket in addition to the already existing multiplication operation.
(Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_algebra)
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Bianchi classification
- Cartan decomposition
- differential graded Lie algebra
- graded Lie algebra
- group contraction
- homotopy Lie algebra
- invariant convex cone
- Kac-Moody algebra
- Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction
- Killing form
- Kostant's convexity theorem
- Leibniz algebra
- Lie's third theorem
- real form
- root system
- special linear Lie algebra
- symmetric cone
- vertex operator algebra
- Virasoro algebra
- Vogel plane
- Weyl group
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