• In the mathematical field of representation theory, a weight of an algebra A over a field F is an algebra homomorphism from A to F, or equivalently, a...
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    Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebraic structures by representing their elements as linear transformations of...
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  • Fundamental representation Antifundamental representation Bifundamental representation Adjoint representation Weight (representation theory) Cartan's theorem...
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    In the mathematical field of representation theory, a Lie algebra representation or representation of a Lie algebra is a way of writing a Lie algebra...
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  • In the study of the representation theory of Lie groups, the study of representations of SU(2) is fundamental to the study of representations of semisimple...
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  • Unitary representation Weight (representation theory) Peter–Weyl theorem Borel–Weil theorem Kirillov character formula Representation theory of SU(2)...
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  • In representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, a fundamental representation is an irreducible finite-dimensional representation of a semisimple...
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  • refer to: Weight (graph theory) a number associated to an edge or to a vertex of a graph Weight (representation theory), a type of function Weight (strings)...
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  • This is a glossary of representation theory in mathematics. The term "module" is often used synonymously for a representation; for the module-theoretic...
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    fashion. Compact groups have a well-understood theory, in relation to group actions and representation theory. In the following we will assume all groups...
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    the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras is one of the crowning achievements of the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The theory was...
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  • In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the theorem of the highest weight classifies the irreducible representations of a complex semisimple...
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  • {\displaystyle k} -space. These weights – in particularly their geometry – are of central importance in understanding the representation theory of Lie algebras, specifically...
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  • representation theory of compact Lie groups), the weights of the dual representation are the negatives of the weights of the original representation....
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    connections between those areas. Graph theory plays an important role in electrical modeling of electrical networks, here, weights are associated with resistance...
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  • In mathematics, more specifically in group theory, the character of a group representation is a function on the group that associates to each group element...
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    this highest weight. An important aspect of the representation theory is the associated theory of characters. Here, for a representation Σ {\displaystyle...
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  • In group theory, restriction forms a representation of a subgroup using a known representation of the whole group. Restriction is a fundamental construction...
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    In mathematics, specifically in the representation theory of groups and algebras, an irreducible representation ( ρ , V ) {\displaystyle (\rho ,V)} or...
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    In mathematics, the representation theory of the Poincaré group is an example of the representation theory of a Lie group that is neither a compact group...
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  • Borel–Weil–Bott theorem (category Representation theory of Lie groups)
    mathematics, the Borel–Weil–Bott theorem is a basic result in the representation theory of Lie groups, showing how a family of representations can be obtained...
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    the Lorentz group is deduced using the general framework of the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras. The finite-dimensional representations...
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    to Hamming weight in the binary case, in 1954. Hamming weight is used in several disciplines including information theory, coding theory, and cryptography...
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  • space of states of a theory is a representation of the product of the two Virasoro algebras. This space is a Hilbert space if the theory is unitary. This...
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    In mathematics, the adjoint representation (or adjoint action) of a Lie group G is a way of representing the elements of the group as linear transformations...
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  • irreducible unitary representations of G: the highest weight representation L(λ) with highest weight λ∈h*+ corresponds to the integral coadjoint orbit G·λ...
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  • Schur's lemma (category Representation theory)
    Schur's lemma is an elementary but extremely useful statement in representation theory of groups and algebras. In the group case it says that if M and...
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  • In mathematics, a source for the representation theory of the group of diffeomorphisms of a smooth manifold M is the initial observation that (for M connected)...
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  • specifically in representation theory, a semisimple representation (also called a completely reducible representation) is a linear representation of a group...
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  • Kostant partition function (category Representation theory)
    In representation theory, a branch of mathematics, the Kostant partition function, introduced by Bertram Kostant (1958, 1959), of a root system Δ {\displaystyle...
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