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The orthogonal group is an algebraic group and a Lie group. It is compact. The orthogonal group in dimension n has two connected components. The one that contains the identity element is a normal subgroup, called the special orthogonal group, and denoted SO(n). It consists of all orthogonal matrices of determinant 1.
In Lie group terms, this means that the Lie algebra of an orthogonal matrix group consists of skew-symmetric matrices. Going the other direction, the matrix exponential of any skew-symmetric matrix is an orthogonal matrix (in fact, special orthogonal).
orthogonal group: real orthogonal matrices: Y Z 2 – The symmetry group of the sphere (n=3) or hypersphere. so(n) n(n−1)/2 SO(n) special orthogonal group: real orthogonal matrices with determinant 1 Y 0 Z n=2 Z 2 n>2 Spin(n) n>2 SO(1) is a single point and SO(2) is isomorphic to the circle group, SO(3) is the rotation group of the sphere. so(n)
The orthogonal groups and special orthogonal groups, ... Meanwhile, for every finite-dimensional matrix Lie algebra, there is a linear group (matrix Lie group) with ...
This Lie group is not determined uniquely; however, any two Lie groups with the same Lie algebra are locally isomorphic, and more strongly, they have the same universal cover. For instance, the special orthogonal group SO(3) and the special unitary group SU(2) have isomorphic Lie algebras, but SU(2) is a simply connected double cover of SO(3).
In this sense it is opposite to the definite orthogonal group O(n) := O(n, 0) = O(0, n), which is the compact real form of the complex Lie algebra. The group SO(1, 1) may be identified with the group of unit split-complex numbers. In terms of being a group of Lie type – i.e., construction of an algebraic group from a Lie algebra – split ...
For an orthogonal matrix R, note that det R T = det R implies (det R) 2 = 1, so that det R = ±1. The subgroup of orthogonal matrices with determinant +1 is called the special orthogonal group, denoted SO(3). Thus every rotation can be represented uniquely by an orthogonal matrix with unit determinant.
In mathematics, the Iwasawa decomposition (aka KAN from its expression) of a semisimple Lie group generalises the way a square real matrix can be written as a product of an orthogonal matrix and an upper triangular matrix (QR decomposition, a consequence of Gram–Schmidt orthogonalization).