Timeline for Nicest coset representatives of the symplectic group in the general linear group
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| Dec 22, 2009 at 13:37 | vote | accept | Puraṭci Vinnani | ||
| Dec 12, 2009 at 23:01 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | Actually, the term "little group" is due to Wigner. In its origin it was the maximal compact subgroup of the stabilizer of a character of the Poincaré group. These days it's synomymous with stabilizer. | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 18:55 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | Actually, in English, people would most likely say "the smaller group" (to me "little" would sound quite strange, though I have no explanation for this fact). | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 17:57 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | I think that in English people say the "little" group :) | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 17:56 | answer | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 15:46 | answer | added | David Bar Moshe | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 7:07 | answer | added | Ian Agol | timeline score: 3 | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 6:04 | comment | added | Mariano Suárez-Álvarez | They are at least parametrized by the symplectic forms on $\mathbb C^{2n}$, for the big group acts transitively on them, and the small group is the stabilizer of one of them... | |
| Dec 12, 2009 at 5:55 | history | asked | Puraṭci Vinnani | CC BY-SA 2.5 |