The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements.
- The center of a group G consists of all those elements x in G such that xg = gx for all g in G. This is a normal subgroup of G.
- The similarly named notion for a semigroup is defined likewise and it is a subsemigroup.[1][2]
- The center of a ring (or an associative algebra) R is the subset of R consisting of all those elements x of R such that xr = rx for all r in R.[3] The center is a commutative subring of R.
- The center of a Lie algebra L consists of all those elements x in L such that [x,a] = 0 for all a in L. This is an ideal of the Lie algebra L.
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- ^ Ljapin, E. S. (1968). Semigroups. Translations of Mathematical Monographs. Vol. 3. Translated by A. A. Brown; J. M. Danskin; D. Foley; S. H. Gould; E. Hewitt; S. A. Walker; J. A. Zilber. Providence, Rhode Island: American Mathematical Soc. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8218-8641-0.
- ^ Durbin, John R. (1993). Modern Algebra: An Introduction (3rd ed.). John Wiley and Sons. p. 118. ISBN 0-471-51001-7.
The center of a ring R is defined to be {c ∈ R: cr = rc for every r ∈ R}.
, Exercise 22.22
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