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Killing form
In mathematics, the Killing form, named for Wilhelm Killing (1847-1923), is a bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras. In an example of Stigler's law of eponymy, the Killing form was actually invented by Élie Cartan, whereas the Cartan matrix is due to Wilhelm Killing.
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