• In mathematics, the complex Witt algebra, named after Ernst Witt, is the Lie algebra of meromorphic vector fields defined on the Riemann sphere that are...
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  • Lie algebras, the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem (or PBW theorem) is a result giving an explicit description of the universal enveloping algebra of a...
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  • universal enveloping algebra of a free Lie algebra on a set X is the free associative algebra generated by X. By the Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem it is the...
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  • (linguist and mathematician) Superspace Exterior algebra DeWitt 1984, Chapter 1, page 1. DeWitt 1984, pp. 1–2. DeWitt 1984, p. 2. Rogers 2007a, Chapter 1 (available...
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  • mathematics, a Witt vector is an infinite sequence of elements of a commutative ring. Ernst Witt showed how to put a ring structure on the set of Witt vectors...
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    mathematics, the Virasoro algebra is a complex Lie algebra and the unique nontrivial central extension of the Witt algebra. It is widely used in two-dimensional...
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  • X over a base field k. Its values Hn(X/W) are modules over the ring W of Witt vectors over k. It was introduced by Alexander Grothendieck (1966, 1968)...
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    algebra in two spacetime dimensions. The Virasoro algebra is the universal central extension of the Witt algebra. Central extensions are needed in physics, because...
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  • Verschiebung operator (category Algebraic groups)
    identity homomorphism. For Witt vectors, the Verschiebung takes (a0, a1, a2, ...) to (0, a0, a1, ...). On the Hopf algebra of symmetric functions, the...
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    Multivariate Statistics. Academic Press. pp. 455–464. ISBN 0-12-398750-4. DeWitt, Bryce (1984). "Chapter 1". Supermanifolds. Cambridge University Press....
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  • differential graded algebra is isomorphic to the derived de-Rham complex. The de Rham–Witt complex is, in very rough terms, an enhancement of the de Rham complex...
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    DeWitt Clinton High School is a public high school located since 1929 in the Bronx, New York. Opened in 1897 in Lower Manhattan as an all-boys school,...
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  • Schreier (1927) introduced Artin–Schreier theory for extensions of prime degree p, and Witt (1936) generalized it to extensions of prime power degree pn. If K is a field...
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    algebra. For example, Witt's decomposition theorem says that a nondegenerate quadratic form over a field is determined up to isomorphism by its Witt index...
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  • as the difference in the Witt ring of the ternary forms attached to the imaginary subspaces of A and B. The quaternion algebras are linked if and only if...
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    Group scheme (category Algebraic groups)
    with coefficients in Witt vectors of k. F and V are the Frobenius and Verschiebung operators, and they may act nontrivially on the Witt vectors. Dieudonne...
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    research on Sklyanin algebras in Poisson geometry, on the actions of Hopf algebras, and on the universal enveloping algebra of the Witt algebra. She was elected...
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  • In mathematics, Witt vector cohomology was an early p-adic cohomology theory for algebraic varieties introduced by Serre (1958). Serre constructed it by...
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  • F-crystal (category Algebraic geometry)
    crystals "up to isogeny". Suppose that k is a perfect field, with ring of Witt vectors W and let K be the quotient field of W, with Frobenius automorphism σ...
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    a fixed field F is isomorphic to the set of ring homomorphisms from the Witt ring W(F) of quadratic forms over F, to Z. An Archimedean field is an ordered...
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  • Dieudonné module (category Algebraic groups)
    the non-commutative Dieudonné ring, which is generated over the ring of Witt vectors by two special endomorphisms F {\displaystyle F} and V {\displaystyle...
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  • L-theory (redirect from Algebraic L-group)
    even-dimensional L-groups L 2 k ( R ) {\displaystyle L_{2k}(R)} are defined as the Witt groups of ε-quadratic forms over the ring R with ϵ = ( − 1 ) k {\displaystyle...
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    Luc Illusie (category Algebraic geometers)
    cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard...
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    x^{y}\right]=1.} Identity (5) is also known as the Hall–Witt identity, after Philip Hall and Ernst Witt. It is a group-theoretic analogue of the Jacobi identity...
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    Jean-Pierre Serre (category Algebraic geometers)
    1954–55 was one based on Witt vector coefficients. Around 1958 Serre suggested that isotrivial principal bundles on algebraic varieties – those that become...
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    S2CID 119143902. Bhatt, Bhargav; Scholze, Peter (2017). "Projectivity of the Witt vector affine Grassmannian". Inventiones Mathematicae. 209 (2): 329–423....
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  • provided that dim(X)<p and X admits a smooth proper lift over the ring of Witt vectors W2(k) of length two (for example, for k=Fp, this ring would be Z/p2)...
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    field Group scheme of roots of unity Dirichlet character Ramanujan's sum Witt vector Teichmüller character Hadlock, Charles R. (2000). Field Theory and...
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  • under the supervision of Manuel Ojanguren, with a thesis entitled Groupes de Witt dérivés des Schémas (in French). His research centers around triangulated...
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  • Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem (universal enveloping algebras) Shirshov–Cohn theorem (Jordan algebras) Shirshov–Witt theorem (Lie algebras) Beck's monadicity...
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