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Euclidean geometry in nLab


conformal group in nLab

In euclidean n n -space for n > 2 n\gt 2 a general conformal transformation is some composition of a translation, dilation, rotation and ...

Saunders Mac Lane in nLab

On Euclidean geometry: Saunders Mac Lane, Metric postulates for plane geometry, American Mathematical Monthly, 66 7 (1959) 543-555. (doi ...

Euclidean G-space in nLab

Let V ∈ RO ( G ) V \in RO(G) be an orthogonal linear representation of a finite group G G on a real vector space V V . If G G is the point group ...

Cayley form in nLab

which constitutes an exceptional calibration of ℝ 4 \mathbb{R}^4 with its Euclidean geometry. More generally, a Spin(7)-manifold carries a ...

odd line in nLab

geometry of physics – supergeometry. Superalgebra. super commutative ... super Euclidean group · super ∞-groupoid · super formal smooth ...

Phillip Griffiths in nLab

On (isometric) submanifolds of Euclidean space via (the algebraic geometry of) their higher-dimensional coframe fields: Phillip Griffiths, ...

geometry of physics -- supergeometry in nLab

Supergeometry is the generalization of differential geometry (or algebraic geometry) to the situation where algebras of functions are generalized.

sectional curvature in nLab

1. Idea ; positive number sectional curvature are the topic of elliptic geometry; ; zero sectional curvature are the topic of Euclidean geometry;.

Isbell duality in nLab

Isbell duality is the archetype of the duality between geometry and algebra that permeates mathematics (such as Gelfand duality, Stone duality, or the ...

line object in nLab

The real line ℝ \mathbb{R} models the naive intuition of the geometric line in Euclidean geometry. See also at complex line. In many contexts of ...

noncommutative algebraic geometry in nLab

Commutative algebraic geometry, restricts attention to spaces whose local description is via commutative rings and algebras, while ...

hypersurface in nLab

Typically the term is used in generalization of curves and surfaces that are embedded into an ambient Cartesian space/Euclidean space – such as ...

condensed mathematics in nLab

Euclidean space · real line, plane · cylinder, cone · sphere, ball · circle ... geometry into algebraic geometry. For instance, the category of ...

torsion of a metric connection in nLab

In supergeometry a metric structure is given by a connection with values in the super Poincaré Lie algebra. The corresponding notion of torsion ...

de Sitter spacetime in nLab

Euclidean geometry · Riemannian geometry · affine connection · Euclidean gravity · Poincaré group Iso ( d − 1 , 1 ) Iso(d-1,1), Lorentz group O ...

geometric analysis in nLab

Euclidean geometry, hyperbolic geometry, elliptic geometry. (pseudo ... Jürgen Jost, Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis ...

Lie group in nLab

Proposition 3.2. Every connected finite-dimensional real Lie group is homeomorphic to a product of a compact Lie group and a Euclidean space.

orbifold in nLab

... Euclidean spaces ℝ n \mathbb{R}^n , an ... Orbifolds are in differential geometry what Deligne-Mumford stacks are in algebraic geometry.

transvection in nLab

In the geometry of symmetric spaces, one defines transvections using a parallel transport along geodesic lines; at any point these transvections ...

nLab differential forms in synthetic differential geometry

In the context of synthetic differential geometry a differential form ω \omega of degree k k on a manifold X X is literally a function on the ...