• In mathematics, the isometry group of a metric space is the set of all bijective isometries (that is, bijective, distance-preserving maps) from the metric...
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    composition, called the isometry group. There is also the weaker notion of path isometry or arcwise isometry: A path isometry or arcwise isometry is a map which...
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    In mathematics, a Euclidean group is the group of (Euclidean) isometries of a Euclidean space E n {\displaystyle \mathbb {E} ^{n}} ; that is, the transformations...
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    the symmetry group of an object X is G = Sym(X). For an object in a metric space, its symmetries form a subgroup of the isometry group of the ambient...
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    the Bohr compactification, and in group cohomology theory of Lie groups. A discrete isometry group is an isometry group such that for every point of the...
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    36°, and reflections. As isometry group there are 10 more automorphisms; they are conjugates by isometries outside the group, rotating the mirrors 18°...
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  • A fixed point of an isometry group is a point that is a fixed point for every isometry in the group. For any isometry group in Euclidean space the set...
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  • a point group in three dimensions is an isometry group in three dimensions that leaves the origin fixed, or correspondingly, an isometry group of a sphere...
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    In mathematics, a quasi-isometry is a function between two metric spaces that respects large-scale geometry of these spaces and ignores their small-scale...
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    The Poincaré group, named after Henri Poincaré (1905), was first defined by Hermann Minkowski (1908) as the isometry group of Minkowski spacetime. It...
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  • as abstract groups. Dih(S1), or orthogonal group O(2,R), or O(2): the isometry group of a circle, or equivalently, the group of isometries in 2D that keep...
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  • § Classification). The set of Euclidean plane isometries forms a group under composition: the Euclidean group in two dimensions. It is generated by reflections...
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    In mathematics, a Kleinian group is a discrete subgroup of the group of orientation-preserving isometries of hyperbolic 3-space H3. The latter, identifiable...
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    Lorentz group is a subgroup of the Poincaré group—the group of all isometries of Minkowski spacetime. Lorentz transformations are, precisely, isometries that...
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    two-dimensional point group or rosette group is a group of geometric symmetries (isometries) that keep at least one point fixed in a plane. Every such group is a subgroup...
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  • distance-preserving surjective map (that is, an isometry of metric spaces) between two connected Riemannian manifolds is a smooth isometry of Riemannian manifolds. A simpler...
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    the distance between each pair of points (an isometry). The corresponding group is called isometry group of X. If instead angles are preserved, one speaks...
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    isometry group of a uniformized Riemann surface (equivalently, the conformal automorphism group) reflects its geometry: genus 0 – the isometry group of...
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    d: the group G = A4 has no subgroup of order 6. Although it is a property for the abstract group in general, it is clear from the isometry group of chiral...
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    theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system. Specifically...
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    to their symmetry group type. Isometries of the Euclidean plane fall into four categories (see the article Euclidean plane isometry for more information)...
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    automorphism group of the graph consisting of a path infinite to both sides. Correspondingly, it is the isometry group of Z (see also symmetry groups in one...
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  • whose isometry group is the complex automorphism group SL(2, R) = Sp(2, R), the Siegel upper half-space has only one metric up to scaling whose isometry group...
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    space form, modulo a certain group action of isometries. For example, the isometry group of the n-sphere is the orthogonal group O(n + 1). Given any finite...
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    Homogeneous space (category Topological groups)
    when the group G in question is the automorphism group of the space X – here "automorphism group" can mean isometry group, diffeomorphism group, or homeomorphism...
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  • Its isometry group is a compact orthogonal group O(n). This stands in contrast with the case of isotropic forms, when the corresponding group, the indefinite...
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  • fundamental group in the isometry group of the hyperbolic plane, which is isomorphic to PSL2(R) and this realizes the fundamental group as a Fuchsian group. A...
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    a group Centralizer and normalizer Characteristic subgroup Commutator Composition series Conjugacy class Conjugate closure Conjugation of isometries in...
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  • Isometry group Quasi-isometry Dade isometry Euclidean isometry Euclidean plane isometry Itō isometry Isometric (disambiguation) Isometries in physics...
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  • Crystallographic restriction theorem (category Group theory)
    in terms of isometries of Euclidean space. A set of isometries can form a group. By a discrete isometry group we will mean an isometry group that maps each...
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