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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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    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 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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  • 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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    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 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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    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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  • 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, Lagrange's theorem states that if H is a subgroup of any finite group G, then |H| is a divisor of |G|, i.e...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    representations. This group is significant because special relativity together with quantum mechanics are the two physical theories that are most thoroughly...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    mathematics, Galois theory, originally introduced by Évariste Galois, provides a connection between field theory and group theory. This connection, the...
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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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  • 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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    to symmetry groups such as the Euclidean group and the group of projective transformations. In 1874 Lie introduced the theory of Lie groups, aiming for...
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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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    such as Galois theory, invariant theory, the representation theory of Lie groups, and combinatorics. Cayley's theorem states that every group G {\displaystyle...
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    split-complex numbers taking the transpose in a matrix ring. In group theory, an element of a group is an involution if it has order 2; that is, an involution...
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    group by an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space allows methods of analysis to be applied to the theory of groups. Furthermore, representation theory is...
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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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