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special unitary Lie algebra

Idea

The Lie algebra $\mathrm{𝔰𝔲}(n)$ of the special unitary group $\mathrm{SU}(n)$. Canonically identified with matrices with complex number entries that are skew-hermitean and have vanishing trace.

Related concepts

• unitary Lie algebra

• special orthogonal Lie algebra