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Structures and operations

  • Conjugacy class sum
  • Central extension
  • Direct product of groups
  • Direct sum of groups
  • Extension problem
  • Free abelian group
  • Free group
  • Free product
  • Generating set of a group
  • Group cohomology
  • Group extension
  • Presentation of a group
  • Product of group subsets
  • Schur multiplier
  • Semidirect product
  • Sylow theorems
  • Hall subgroup
  • Wreath product

Basic properties of groups

  • Butterfly lemma
  • Center of a group
  • Centralizer and normalizer
  • Characteristic subgroup
  • Commutator
  • Composition series
  • Conjugacy class
  • Conjugate closure
  • Conjugation of isometries in Euclidean space
  • Core (group)
  • Coset
  • Derived group
  • Euler's theorem
  • Fitting subgroup
  • Generalized Fitting subgroup
  • Hamiltonian group
  • Identity element
  • Lagrange's theorem
  • Multiplicative inverse
  • Normal subgroup
  • Perfect group
  • p-core
  • Schreier refinement theorem
  • Subgroup
  • Transversal (combinatorics)
  • Torsion subgroup
  • Zassenhaus lemma

Group homomorphisms

  • Automorphism
  • Automorphism group
  • Factor group
  • Fundamental theorem on homomorphisms
  • Group homomorphism
  • Group isomorphism
  • Homomorphism
  • Isomorphism theorem
  • Inner automorphism
  • Order automorphism
  • Outer automorphism group
  • Quotient group

Basic types of groups

  • Examples of groups
  • Abelian group
  • Cyclic group
  • Rank of an abelian group
  • Dicyclic group
  • Dihedral group
  • Divisible group
  • Finitely generated abelian group
  • Group representation
  • Klein four-group
  • List of small groups
  • Locally cyclic group
  • Nilpotent group
  • Non-abelian group
  • Solvable group
  • P-group
  • Pro-finite group

Simple groups and their classification

  • Classification of finite simple groups
  • Alternating group
  • Borel subgroup
  • Chevalley group
  • Conway group
  • Feit–Thompson theorem
  • Fischer group
  • General linear group
  • Group of Lie type
  • Group scheme
  • HN group
  • Janko group
  • Lie group
  • Simple Lie group
  • Linear algebraic group
  • List of finite simple groups
  • Mathieu group
  • Monster group
  • Baby Monster group
  • Bimonster
  • Projective group
  • Reductive group
  • Simple group
  • Quasisimple group
  • Special linear group
  • Symmetric group
  • Thompson group (finite)
  • Tits group
  • Weyl group

Permutation and symmetry groups

  • Arithmetic group
  • Braid group
  • Burnside's lemma
  • Cayley's theorem
  • Coxeter group
  • Crystallographic group
  • Crystallographic point group, Schoenflies notation
  • Discrete group
  • Euclidean group
  • Even and odd permutations
  • Frieze group
  • Frobenius group
  • Fuchsian group
  • Geometric group theory
  • Group action
  • Homogeneous space
  • Hyperbolic group
  • Isometry group
  • Orbit (group theory)
  • Permutation
  • Permutation group
  • Rubik's Cube group
  • Space group
  • Stabilizer subgroup
  • Steiner system
  • Strong generating set
  • Symmetry
  • Symmetric group
  • Symmetry group
  • Wallpaper group

Concepts groups share with other mathematics

  • Associativity
  • Bijection
  • Bilinear operator
  • Binary operation
  • Commutative
  • Congruence relation
  • Equivalence class
  • Equivalence relation
  • Lattice (group)
  • Lattice (discrete subgroup)
  • Multiplication table
  • Prime number
  • Up to

Mathematical objects making use of a group operation

  • Abelian variety
  • Algebraic group
  • Banach–Tarski paradox
  • Category of groups
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Elliptic curve
  • Galois group
  • Gell-Mann matrices
  • Group object
  • Hilbert space
  • Integer
  • Lie group
  • Matrix
  • Modular arithmetic
  • Number
  • Pauli matrices
  • Real number
  • Quaternion
  • Quaternion group
  • Tensor

Mathematical fields and topics making important use of group theory

  • Algebraic geometry
  • Algebraic topology
  • Discrete space
  • Fundamental group
  • Geometry
  • Homology
  • Minkowski's theorem
  • Topological group
  • Field
  • Finite field
  • Galois theory
  • Grothendieck group
  • Group ring
  • Group with operators
  • Heap
  • Linear algebra
  • Magma
  • Module
  • Monoid
  • Monoid ring
  • Quandle
  • Quasigroup
  • Quantum group
  • Ring
  • Semigroup
  • Vector space

Group representations

  • Affine representation
  • Character theory
  • Great orthogonality theorem
  • Maschke's theorem
  • Monstrous moonshine
  • Projective representation
  • Representation theory
  • Schur's lemma

Computational group theory

  • Coset enumeration
  • Schreier's subgroup lemma
  • Schreier–Sims algorithm
  • Todd–Coxeter algorithm

Applications

  • Computer algebra system
  • Cryptography
  • Discrete logarithm
  • Triple DES
  • Caesar cipher
  • Exponentiating by squaring
  • Knapsack problem
  • Shor's algorithm
  • Standard Model
  • Symmetry in physics

Famous problems

  • Burnside's problem
  • Classification of finite simple groups
  • Herzog–Schönheim conjecture
  • Subset sum problem
  • Whitehead problem
  • Word problem for groups

Other topics

  • Amenable group
  • Capable group
  • Commensurability (group theory)
  • Compact group
  • Compactly generated group
  • Complete group
  • Complex reflection group
  • Congruence subgroup
  • Continuous symmetry
  • Frattini subgroup
  • Growth rate
  • Heisenberg group, discrete Heisenberg group
  • Molecular symmetry
  • Nielsen transformation
  • Reflection group
  • Tarski monster group
  • Thompson groups
  • Tietze transformation
  • Transfer (group theory)

Group theorists

  • N. Abel
  • M. Aschbacher
  • R. Baer
  • R. Brauer
  • W. Burnside
  • R. Carter
  • A. Cauchy
  • A. Cayley
  • J.H. Conway
  • R. Dedekind
  • L.E. Dickson
  • M. Dunwoody
  • W. Feit
  • B. Fischer
  • H. Fitting
  • G. Frattini
  • G. Frobenius
  • E. Galois
  • G. Glauberman
  • D. Gorenstein
  • R.L. Griess
  • M. Hall, Jr.
  • P. Hall
  • G. Higman
  • D. Hilbert
  • O. Hölder
  • B. Huppert
  • K. Iwasawa
  • Z. Janko
  • C. Jordan
  • F. Klein
  • A. Kurosh
  • J.L. Lagrange
  • C. Leedham-Green
  • F.W. Levi
  • Sophus Lie
  • W. Magnus
  • E. Mathieu
  • G.A. Miller
  • B.H. Neumann
  • H. Neumann
  • J. Nielson
  • Emmy Noether
  • Ø. Ore
  • O. Schreier
  • I. Schur
  • R. Steinberg
  • M. Suzuki
  • L. Sylow
  • J. Thompson
  • J. Tits
  • Helmut Wielandt
  • H. Zassenhaus
  • M. Zorn

See also

  • List of abstract algebra topics
  • List of category theory topics
  • List of Lie group topics