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In mathematics, the special linear group SL(n, R) of degree n over a commutative ring R is the set of n × n matrices with determinant 1, with the group operations of ordinary matrix multiplication and matrix inversion. This is the normal subgroup of the general linear group given by the kernel of the determinant
In mathematics, the general linear group of degree n is the set of n×n invertible matrices, together with the operation of ordinary matrix multiplication.This forms a group, because the product of two invertible matrices is again invertible, and the inverse of an invertible matrix is invertible, with the identity matrix as the identity element of the group.
A representation of a group on an -dimensional real vector space is simply a group homomorphism : (,) from the group to the general linear group. This way, the group operation, which may be abstractly given, translates to the multiplication of matrices making it accessible to explicit computations.
The group GL n (K) itself; The special linear group SL n (K) (the subgroup of matrices with determinant 1); The group of invertible upper (or lower) triangular matrices; If g i is a collection of elements in GL n (K) indexed by a set I, then the subgroup generated by the g i is a linear group.
In mathematics, the special linear group SL(2, R) or SL 2 (R) is the group of 2 × 2 real matrices with determinant one: (,) = {():,,, =}.It is a connected non-compact simple real Lie group of dimension 3 with applications in geometry, topology, representation theory, and physics.
Reductive groups include some of the most important groups in mathematics, such as the general linear group GL(n) of invertible matrices, the special orthogonal group SO(n), and the symplectic group Sp(2n). Simple algebraic groups and (more generally) semisimple algebraic groups are reductive.
In mathematics, the classical groups are defined as the special linear groups over the reals , the complex numbers and the quaternions together with special [1] automorphism groups of symmetric or skew-symmetric bilinear forms and Hermitian or skew-Hermitian sesquilinear forms defined on real, complex and quaternionic finite-dimensional vector spaces. [2]
In mathematics, especially in the group theoretic area of algebra, the projective linear group (also known as the projective general linear group or PGL) is the induced action of the general linear group of a vector space V on the associated projective space P(V). Explicitly, the projective linear group is the quotient group. PGL(V) = GL(V) / Z(V)