Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing (10 May 1847 – 11 February 1923) was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras...
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Mathematically a Killing horizon is a null hypersurface defined by the vanishing of the norm of a Killing vector field (both are named after Wilhelm Killing). It...
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In mathematics, the Killing form, named after Wilhelm Killing, is a symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and...
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In mathematics, a Killing vector field (often called a Killing field), named after Wilhelm Killing, is a vector field on a Riemannian manifold (or pseudo-Riemannian...
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generally lack such a direct geometric interpretation. Killing tensors are named after Wilhelm Killing. In the following definition, parentheses around tensor...
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"Killing", a song from an untitled Korn album released in 2007 The Killing, an EP by Hatesphere Several concepts named after Wilhelm Killing: Killing tensor...
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(1959–2019), French actress Wesley Killing (born 1993), Canadian pair skater Wilhelm Killing (1847–1923), German mathematician Killings (surname) This page lists...
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in the context of Lie algebras were first investigated by Wilhelm Killing, whereas the Killing form is due to Cartan.[citation needed] A (symmetrizable)...
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classification of real simple Lie algebras is one of the major achievements of Wilhelm Killing and Élie Cartan. A direct sum of simple Lie algebras is called a semisimple...
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The name Killing refers to Wilhelm Killing, who first investigated Killing vector fields. A vector field X {\displaystyle X} is a Killing vector field...
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