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Introduced by Élie Cartan in his doctoral thesis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cartan subalgebra
Today it means: A certain kind of nilpotent subalgebra of a Lie algebra. Full definition →
Today it means: A certain kind of nilpotent subalgebra of a Lie algebra. Full definition →
Introduced by Élie Cartan in his doctoral thesis.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.