Talk:Group of Lie type

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perhaps a note on how these differ from Lie groups? MarSch 14:48, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

AFAIK, a Lie group is a special case of a group of Lie type, with the field being Reals or Complex numbers, in which case the group obtains an extra structure of a smooth manifold. This is certainly true for most examples in Lie group article, but there are some, of which I have no idea (like Lorentz and Poincare) if they can be identifyed as groups of Lie type... --SH 111 07:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

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I was exploring some algebra pages, and I found this one. I don't know much about lie groups, and this page sounded very awkward to me. The text felt pieced together. Two examples: Under Classical Groups the article refers to "this question" -- which question? Also, under Chevalley groups, it refers to "the theory" -- what thoery? So, if anyone has some free time, this would be a good place to do some copyedit :) - grubber 02:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)