Lie bracket

English

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Lie bracket

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Pronunciation

• enPR: lē′ brăk′ĭt
• (contemporary Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliː ˌbɹak.ɪt/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈli ˌbɹæk.ɪt/
• (General Australian, conservative Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈliː ˌbɹæk.ɪt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈliː ˌbɹɛk.ət/
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈliː ˌbɹɛk.ət/
• (India) IPA^(key): /ˈliː ˌbɾak.ɪʈ/
• Hyphenation: Lie brack‧et

Proper noun

the Lie bracket

2. (mathematics) The commutation operation [a,b]=ab-ba.

Translations

commutation operation

French: crochet de Lie m German: Lie-Klammer f Polish: nawias Liego m

Further reading

• “Lie bracket”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025, retrieved 17 August 2025
• Weisstein, Eric W. (1999–2025), “Lie Bracket”, in MathWorld, Wolfram Research, retrieved 17 August 2025.
• matte (16 February 2004), “Lie bracket”, in PlanetMath‎ (wiki), University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics, archived from the original on 21 March 2004