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Lie Groups

In: An Introduction to Differential Manifolds

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  • Jacques Lafontaine

    (Université Montpellier 2, Département de Mathématiques)

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The notion of group was singled out around 1830 by Évariste Galois in his work on algebraic equations. This initial work was with finite groups. Forty years later, the work of Galois inspired the Norwegian mathematician Sophus Lie, who rather than studying invariance of algebraic equations was studying the invariance properties of ordinary and partial differential equations and put the need for other types of groups into focus. These were formerly called “finite and continuous groups”, which in today’s language conveys groups of finite topological dimension. In fact many of the examples discovered were smooth manifolds, with smooth group operations. Today we call such groups Lie groups.

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  • Jacques Lafontaine, 2015. "Lie Groups," Springer Books, in: An Introduction to Differential Manifolds, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 147-183, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-319-20735-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20735-3_4
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