Cartan subalgebra

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Cartan subalgebra

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Introduced by Élie Cartan in his doctoral thesis.

noun Cartan subalgebras

A certain kind of nilpotent subalgebra of a Lie algebra.
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@misc{cartan_subalgebra_2026,
  title = {Cartan subalgebra},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cartan%20subalgebra},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}