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nounA certain kind of nilpotent subalgebra of a Lie algebra.
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Introduced by Élie Cartan in his doctoral thesis.
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Cartan subalgebra. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Cartan%20subalgebra
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