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    In abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra: other well-known...
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  • In mathematics, combinatorial group theory is the theory of free groups, and the concept of a presentation of a group by generators and relations. It...
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  • In group theory, a word is any written product of group elements and their inverses. For example, if x, y and z are elements of a group G, then xy, z−1xzz...
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    Geometric group theory is an area in mathematics devoted to the study of finitely generated groups via exploring the connections between algebraic properties...
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    In the mathematical field of representation theory, group representations describe abstract groups in terms of bijective linear transformations of a vector...
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  • In mathematics, computational group theory is the study of groups by means of computers. It is concerned with designing and analysing algorithms and data...
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    representation theory (that is, through the representations of the group) and of computational group theory. A theory has been developed for finite groups, which...
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  • In abstract algebra, the center of a group G is the set of elements that commute with every element of G. It is denoted Z(G), from German Zentrum, meaning...
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  • Muted Group Theory (MGT) is a communication theory developed by cultural anthropologist Edwin Ardener and feminist scholar Shirley Ardener in 1975, that...
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  • The history of group theory, a mathematical domain studying groups in their various forms, has evolved in various parallel threads. There are three historical...
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  • In the mathematical field of group theory, the transfer defines, given a group G and a subgroup H of finite index, a group homomorphism from G to the abelianization...
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    finite group is the number of its elements. If a group is not finite, one says that its order is infinite. The order of an element of a group (also called...
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  • In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a core is any of certain special normal subgroups of a group. The two most common types are the normal core...
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    In the mathematical field of group theory, Lagrange's theorem states that if H is a subgroup of any finite group G, then | H | {\displaystyle |H|} is...
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    In group theory, the normal closure of a subset S {\displaystyle S} of a group G {\displaystyle G} is the smallest normal subgroup of G {\displaystyle...
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    mathematics and abstract algebra, group theory studies the algebraic structures known as groups. The concept of a group is central to abstract algebra:...
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    arise from group theoretical symmetries. In Lie's early work, the idea was to construct a theory of continuous groups, to complement the theory of discrete...
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  • in quantum field theory. Stueckelberg and Petermann opened the field conceptually. They noted that renormalization exhibits a group of transformations...
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    Look up Appendix:Glossary of group theory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A group is a set together with an associative operation that admits an identity...
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  • theory of groups is a part of mathematics which examines how groups act on given structures. Here the focus is in particular on operations of groups on...
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  • foundations for combinatorial group theory. The following table lists some examples of presentations for commonly studied groups. Note that in each case there...
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    and algebras. The theory of abelian groups is generally simpler than that of their non-abelian counterparts, and finite abelian groups are very well understood...
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  • discrete and Euclidean geometries, graph theory, group theory, model theory, number theory, set theory, Ramsey theory, dynamical systems, and partial differential...
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    In mathematics, specifically group theory, Cauchy's theorem states that if G is a finite group and p is a prime number dividing the order of G (the number...
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  • representation theory of the symmetric group is a particular case of the representation theory of finite groups, for which a concrete and detailed theory can be...
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  • theory — Galois theory — Game theory — Gauge theory — Graph theoryGroup theory — Hodge theory — Homology theory — Homotopy theory — Ideal theory —...
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  • such as groups, rings, and fields, based on the number of operations they use and the laws they follow. Universal algebra and category theory provide...
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  • representation theory is a branch of mathematics, and is the part of representation theory that studies linear representations of finite groups over a field...
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  • are different definitions used in group theory and ring theory. The commutator of two elements, g and h, of a group G, is the element [g, h] = g−1h−1gh...
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  • categories, and in group theory, where they are also known as sections, though this conflicts with a different meaning in category theory. So in the algebraic...
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