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In mathematics, a one-parameter group or one-parameter subgroup usually means a continuous group homomorphism : from the real line (as an additive group) to some other topological group . That means that it is not in fact a group,〔("One-parameter group not a group? Why?" ), ''Stack Exchange'' Retrieved on 9 January 2015.〕 strictly speaking; if is injective then , the image, will be a subgroup of that is isomorphic to as additive group. One-parameter groups were introduced by Sophus Lie in 1893 to define infinitesimal transformations. According to Lie, an ''infinitesimal transformation'' is an infinitely small transformation of the one-parameter group that it generates.〔Sophus Lie (1893) (Vorlesungen über Continuierliche Gruppen ), English translation by D.H. Delphenich, §8, link from Neo-classical Physics〕 It is these infinitesimal transformations that generate a Lie algebra that is used to describe a Lie group of any dimension. ==Discussion== That is, we start knowing only that : where , are the 'parameters' of group elements in . We may have :, the identity element in , for some . This happens for example if is the unit circle and :; this may happen in cases where is injective. Think for example of the case where is a torus , and is constructed by winding a straight line round at an irrational slope. Therefore a one-parameter group or one-parameter subgroup has to be distinguished from a group or subgroup itself, for the three reasons #it has a definite parametrization, #the group homomorphism may not be injective, and #the induced topology may not be the standard one of the real line. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「One-parameter group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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