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| | eLibrary Project : Symplectic group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19) |
 | | The symplectic group of degree 2''n'' over a field (mathematics),field ''F'', denoted Sp(2''n'', ''F''), is the group (math),group of ''2n'' by ''2n'' symplectic matrix,symplectic matrices with entries in ''F'', and with the group operation that of matrix multiplication. |
 | | Since all symplectic matrices have unit determinant, the symplectic group is a subgroup of the special linear group SL(2''n'', ''F''). |
 | | More abstractly, the symplectic group can be defined as the set of linear transformations of a 2''n''-dimensional vector space over ''F'' that preserve a nondegenerate, skew-symmetric, bilinear form. |
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