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Erlangen Program at Large-0: Starting with the group SL(2,R)

General Mathematics 2008-11-11 v4 Group Theory History and Overview

Abstract

This is an easy-reading which describes few geometric invariants which can be obtained from the group SL(2,R) within the Erlangen program of F.Klein.

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@article{arxiv.math/0607387,
  title  = {Erlangen Program at Large-0: Starting with the group SL(2,R)},
  author = {Vladimir V. Kisil},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607387},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

AMS-LaTeX, 9 pages, 8 figures; v2: small improvements; v3: small corrections, more links to Wikipedia added; v4: minor corrections, two references added