Abelian
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Abelian may refer to:

• Abelians, a 4th century Christian sect
• Hovhannes Abelian, an Armenian actor
• A number of different mathematic terms named after Niels Henrik Abel:

In group theory:

• Abelian group, a group in which the binary operation is commutative
  • Category of abelian groups Ab has abelian groups as objects and group homomorphisms as morphisms
• Metabelian group is a group where the commutator subgroup is abelian
• Abelianisation

In Galois theory:

• Abelian extension, a field extension for which the associated Galois group is abelian

In real analysis:

• Abelian and tauberian theorems, used in the summation of divergent series

In functional analysis

• Abelian von Neumann algebra, a von Neumann algebra of operators on a Hilbert space in which all elements commute

In topology and number theory

• Abelian variety, a complex torus that can be embedded into projective space
• Abelian function, a meromorphic function on an abelian variety
• Abelian integral, a function related to the indefinite integral of a differential of the first kind

In category theory:

• Preabelian category, an additive category that has all kernels and cokernels
• Abelian category, a preabelian category in which every monomorphism is a kernel and every epimorphism is a cokernel

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