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| Dec 8, 2011 at 18:59 | comment | added | Jim Humphreys | The term classical is used in many contexts, but I'm just concerned with the tradition of linear groups arising from work of Weyl and Dieudonne especially. In the case of Lie algebras, my thesis adviser George Seligman and others improvised terminology to distinguish simple Lie algebras associated to simple linear algebraic groups in prime characteristic from the "Cartan type" simple Lie algebras which are finite dimensional analogues of Cartan's Lie pseudo-groups. Here the use of "classical" is convenient but sometimes misleading. | |
| Dec 7, 2011 at 1:31 | history | answered | Yiftach Barnea | CC BY-SA 3.0 |