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lie algebra

/liː.ældʒɨbɹə/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables
lie al-ge-bra
IPA
/liː.ældʒɨbɹə/
13
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An algebra over a field whose bilinear product is alternating (or, equivalently for a bilinear product, anticommutative) and satisfies the Jacobi identity. Such a bilinear product is called a Lie bracket.

Etymology

Named in honor of Sophus Lie (1842–1899), a Norwegian mathematician, in the 1930s by Hermann Weyl.

Inflected Forms

Lie algebras (plural)

Phrases

Lie bialgebra Lie coalgebra Lie superalgebra

Questions

How do you pronounce lie algebra?
The recorded pronunciation is /liː.ældʒɨbɹə/.
What does lie algebra mean?
An algebra over a field whose bilinear product is alternating (or, equivalently for a bilinear product, anticommutative) and satisfies the Jacobi identity. Such a bilinear product is called a Lie bracket.
Where does lie algebra come from?
Named in honor of Sophus Lie (1842–1899), a Norwegian mathematician, in the 1930s by Hermann Weyl.

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