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Lie Groups occur in math and physics as representations of continuous symmetries and are often described in terms of their Lie Algebra. This thesis is concerned with finding a concrete description of a Lie group given its associated Lie algebra. Several calculations toward this end are developed and then implemented in the Maple Differential Geometry package. Examples of the calculations are given.

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The use of graphs in algebraic studies is ubiquitous, whether the graphs be finite or infinite, directed or undirected. Green and Zacharia have characterized finite generation of the cohomology rings of monomial algebras, and thereafter G. Davis determined a finite criteria for such generation in the case of cycle algebras. Herein, we describe the construction of a finite directed graph upon which criteria can be established to determine finite generation of the cohomology ring of in-spoked cycle" algebras, a class of algebras that includes cycle algebras. We then show the further usefulness of this constructed graph by studying other monomial algebras, including d-Koszul monomial algebras and a new class of monomial algebras which we term "left/right-symmetric" algebras. / Ph. D.

For many matrix algebras, every associative automorphism is inner. We discuss results by Đoković that a non-associative Lie automorphism φ of a triangular matrix algebra Tₙ over a connected unital commutative ring, is of the form φ(A)=SAS⁻¹ + τ(A)I or φ(A)=−SJ Aᵀ JS⁻¹ + τ(A)I, where S ∈ Tₙ is invertible, J is an antidiagonal permutation matrix, and τ is a generalized trace. We incorporate additional arguments by Cao that extended Đoković’s result to unital commutative rings containing nontrivial idempotents. Following this we develop new results for Lie isomorphisms of block upper-triangular matrix algebras over unique factorization domains. We build on an approach used by Marcoux and Sourour to characterize Lie isomorphisms of nest algebras over separable Hilbert spaces. We find that these Lie isomorphisms generally follow the form φ = σ + τ where σ is either an associative isomorphism or the negative of an associative anti-isomorphism, and τ is an additive mapping into the center, which maps commutators to zero. This echoes established results by Martindale for simple and prime rings. / Graduate