Lie pseudogroup

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A Lie pseudogroup is a collection of local diffeomorphisms on a manifold that is closed under composition, inversion, and restriction, generalizing the concept of a Lie group to transformations defined only locally.

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instanceOf mathematical concept
pseudogroup
structure in differential geometry
appearsIn equivalence of differential equations
theory of differential invariants
characterizedBy infinitesimal symmetries
systems of partial differential equations
closedUnder composition
gluing of local transformations
inversion
restriction of domain
consistsOf local diffeomorphisms
definedAs pseudogroup of local diffeomorphisms satisfying regularity conditions
definedOn smooth manifold
developedBy Élie Cartan
example local conformal transformations
local contact transformations
local isometries of a Riemannian manifold
local symplectomorphisms
field Lie theory
differential geometry
geometric analysis
formalizedBy Charles Ehresmann
Shoshichi Kobayashi
generalizes Lie group
local transformation group
hasConcept prolongation to jet spaces
hasConstraint transformations satisfy analytic or smooth regularity conditions
hasInfinitesimalObject Lie algebra of vector fields
Lie algebroid
hasOrigin work of Sophus Lie
hasProperty locality
sheaf-like behavior
isSubsetOf pseudogroup of all local diffeomorphisms on a manifold
mayBe finite type
infinite type
modeledBy systems of Lie-type differential equations
relatedTo Cartan connections
surface form: Cartan geometry

theory of G-structures
surface form: G-structures

Lie groupoids
groupoids of local diffeomorphisms
jet bundles
transformation groups
requires smoothness conditions on transformations
studiedIn theory of symmetries of differential equations
usedFor theory of G-structures
surface form: Cartan’s method of moving frames

describing local symmetries of geometric structures
equivalence problems in differential geometry

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Sophus Lie hasConceptNamedAfter Lie pseudogroup