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List of Lie groups topics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6576836 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of Lie group topics, by Wikipedia page.

Examples

See Table of Lie groups for a list

General linear group, special linear group

SL2(R)

SL2(C)

Unitary group, special unitary group

SU(2)

SU(3)

Orthogonal group, special orthogonal group

Rotation group SO(3)

SO(8)

Generalized orthogonal group, generalized special orthogonal group

The special unitary group SU(1,1) is the unit sphere in the ring of coquaternions. It is the group of hyperbolic motions of the Poincaré disk model of the Hyperbolic plane.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 81-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, List, groups and topics is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6576836. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Lie groups topics” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.