Use of the same expansion expresses the above Lie group commutator in terms of a series of nested Lie bracket ( algebra ) commutators,

* A simple group of Lie type, including both

** the exceptional and twisted groups of Lie type ( including the Tits group ).

Their classification is divided into the small and large rank cases, where the rank is the largest rank of an odd abelian subgroup normalizing a nontrivial 2-subgroup, which is often ( but not always ) the same as the rank of a Cartan subalgebra when the group is a group of Lie type in characteristic 2.

If a group has an involution with a 2-component that is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic, the goal is to show that it has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " meaning that a centralizer of involution has a component that is of Lie type in odd characteristic and also has a centralizer of 2-rank 1.

The problem is to show that if a group has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " then it is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic.

Lie algebras: Assigning to every real ( complex ) Lie group its real ( complex ) Lie algebra defines a functor.

Models that do not unify all interactions using one simple Lie group as the gauge symmetry, but do so using semisimple groups, can exhibit similar properties and are sometimes referred to as Grand Unified Theories as well.

Historically, the first true GUT which was based on the simple Lie group SU ( 5 ), was proposed by Howard Georgi and Sheldon Glashow in 1974.

The smallest simple Lie group which contains the standard model, and upon which the first Grand Unified Theory was based, is

The next simple Lie group which contains the standard model is

If the 3 generations are then put in a 3x3 hermitian matrix with certain additions for the diagonal elements then these matrices form an exceptional ( grassman -) Jordan algebra, which has the symmetry group of one of the exceptional Lie groups ( F < sub > 4 </ sub >, E < sub > 6 </ sub >, E < sub > 7 </ sub > or E < sub > 8 </ sub >) depending on the details.

The Lie group could be / Z < sub > 2 </ sub >, just to take a random example.

A GUT model basically consists of a gauge group which is a compact Lie group, a connection form for that Lie group, a Yang-Mills action for that connection given by an invariant symmetric bilinear form over its Lie algebra ( which is specified by a coupling constant for each factor ), a Higgs sector consisting of a number of scalar fields taking on values within real / complex representations of the Lie group and chiral Weyl fermions taking on values within a complex rep of the Lie group.

Construction of the universal enveloping algebra attempts to reverse this process: to a given Lie algebra L over K, find the " most general " unital associative K-algebra A such that the Lie algebra A < sub > L </ sub > contains L ; this algebra A is U ( L ).

If g is a semisimple Lie algebra with parabolic subalgebra p ( i. e., p contains a maximal solvable subalgebra of g ) and G and P are associated Lie groups, then a Cartan connection modelled on ( G, P, g, p ) is called a parabolic Cartan geometry, or simply a parabolic geometry.

This vertex operator algebra contains the E < sub > 8 </ sub > Lie algebra over F < sub > 3 </ sub >, giving the embedding of Th into E < sub > 8 </ sub >( 3 ).

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Let G be a semisimple Lie group or algebraic group over, and fix a maximal torus T along with a Borel subgroup B which contains T. Let λ be an integral weight of T ; λ defines in a natural way a one-dimensional representation C < sub > λ </ sub > of B, by pulling back the representation on T = B / U, where U is the unipotent radical of B.

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In particular, this group always contains the identity element, and the corresponding affine Lie algebra is called an untwisted affine Lie algebra.

Each such example has a corresponding example of compact type, by considering a maximal compact subgroup of the complexification of G which contains K. More directly, the examples of compact type are classified by involutive automorphisms of compact simply connected simple Lie groups G ( up to conjugation ).

Unfortunately there is no standard notation for the finite groups of Lie type, and the literature contains dozens of incompatible and confusing systems of notation for them.

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Standard formulas for the Lie derivative allow us to reformulate this as

* The group U ( 1 )× SU ( 2 )× SU ( 3 ) is a Lie group of dimension 1 + 3 + 8 = 12 that is the gauge group of the Standard Model in particle physics.

Lie groups are the symmetry groups used in the Standard Model of particle physics ; Point groups are used to help understand symmetry phenomena in molecular chemistry ; and Poincaré groups can express the physical symmetry underlying special relativity.

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Standard treatments of Lie theory often begin with the Classical groups.

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The simple groups of low 2-rank are mostly groups of Lie type of small rank over fields of odd characteristic, together with five alternating and seven characteristic 2 type and nine sporadic groups.

This gives a rather large number of different cases to check: there are not only 26 sporadic groups and 16 families of groups of Lie type and the alternating groups, but also many of the groups of small rank or over small fields behave differently from the general case and have to be treated separately, and the groups of Lie type of even and odd characteristic are also quite different.

As the name suggests these are roughly the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2, plus a handful of others that are alternating or sporadic or of odd characteristic.

These correspond roughly to groups of Lie type of ranks 1 or 2 over fields of characteristic 2.

The general higher rank case consists mostly of the groups of Lie type over fields of characteristic 2 of rank at least 3 or 4.

Finite fields have applications in many areas of mathematics and computer science, including coding theory, LFSRs, modular representation theory, and the groups of Lie type.

Most of the groups important in physics and chemistry are Lie groups, and their representation theory is crucial to the application of group theory in those fields.

* Linear algebraic groups ( or more generally affine group schemes ) — These are the analogues of Lie groups, but over more general fields than just R or C. Although linear algebraic groups have a classification that is very similar to that of Lie groups, and give rise to the same families of Lie algebras, their representations are rather different ( and much less well understood ).

The space of smooth vector fields on a differentiable manifold M forms a Lie algebra, where the Lie bracket is defined to be the commutator of vector fields.

The Lie bracket of two vector fields is the vector field defined through its action on functions by the formula:

It is possible to define analogues of many Lie groups over finite fields, and these give most of the examples of finite simple groups.

# Vector fields on any smooth manifold M can be thought of as derivations X of the ring of smooth functions on the manifold, and therefore form a Lie algebra under the Lie bracket = XY − YX, because the Lie bracket of any two derivations is a derivation.