Möbius group

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Alternative forms

  • Moebius group
  • Mobius group

Etymology

Eponymous for August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868), a German mathematician and theoretical astronomer.

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Möbius group (plural Möbius groups)

  1. (group theory) The projective general linear group : the group of Möbius transformations on the Riemann sphere.
  2. (group theory) For a given dimension n, the group of projective transformations leaving a particular hypersphere invariant.

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