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  2. Lie group - Wikipedia

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    The affine group of one dimension is a two-dimensional matrix Lie group, consisting of. 2 × 2 {\displaystyle 2\times 2} real, upper-triangular matrices, with the first diagonal entry being positive and the second diagonal entry being 1. Thus, the group consists of matrices of the form.

  3. Lie point symmetry - Wikipedia

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    Lie point symmetry is a concept in advanced mathematics. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Sophus Lie introduced the notion of Lie group in order to study the solutions of ordinary differential equations [1][2][3] (ODEs). He showed the following main property: the order of an ordinary differential equation can be reduced by one if it ...

  4. Generator (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The generator of any continuous symmetry implied by Noether's theorem, the generators of a Lie group being a special case. In this case, a generator is sometimes called a charge or Noether charge, examples include: angular momentum as the generator of rotations, [3] linear momentum as the generator of translations, [3]

  5. Lie algebra - Wikipedia

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    This Lie group is not determined uniquely; however, any two Lie groups with the same Lie algebra are locally isomorphic, and more strongly, they have the same universal cover. For instance, the special orthogonal group SO(3) and the special unitary group SU(2) have isomorphic Lie algebras, but SU(2) is a simply connected double cover of SO(3).

  6. 3D rotation group - Wikipedia

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    In mechanics and geometry, the 3D rotation group, often denoted SO (3), is the group of all rotations about the origin of three-dimensional Euclidean space under the operation of composition. [1] By definition, a rotation about the origin is a transformation that preserves the origin, Euclidean distance (so it is an isometry), and orientation ...

  7. Symmetry in quantum mechanics - Wikipedia

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    Let G be a Lie group, which is a group that locally is parameterized by a finite number N of real continuously varying parameters ξ 1, ξ 2, ..., ξ N. In more mathematical language, this means that G is a smooth manifold that is also a group, for which the group operations are smooth. the dimension of the group, N, is the number of parameters ...

  8. Special unitary group - Wikipedia

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    t. e. In mathematics, the special unitary group of degree n, denoted SU (n), is the Lie group of n × n unitary matrices with determinant 1. The matrices of the more general unitary group may have complex determinants with absolute value 1, rather than real 1 in the special case. The group operation is matrix multiplication.

  9. Lie group–Lie algebra correspondence - Wikipedia

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    Suppose G is a closed subgroup of GL(n;C), and thus a Lie group, by the closed subgroups theorem.Then the Lie algebra of G may be computed as [2] [3] ⁡ = {(;)}. For example, one can use the criterion to establish the correspondence for classical compact groups (cf. the table in "compact Lie groups" below.)