Talk:Continuous symmetry

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_group_action seems like relevant  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agnishom (talk • contribs) 01:45, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Should we merge this with Continuous group action?

message: Made this article a stub since the definition is not especially clear.  The only definition in the article is "idea viewing some symmetries as motions."  Needs elaboration.  An example would be helpful as well.  The remainder of the article is not accessible to someone new to the topic.  For instance, the example of a motion references a Lie group, which in turn references continuous symmetry. So if you don't understand one, you're out of luck.  Ealdent (talk) 08:13, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It never wasn't rated as a stub (see the template above). Templates belong on the talk pages of articles, but thank you for trying to help out. As far as accessibility goes, this is a problem for quite a few higher math articles and as of yet there is no solution for this problem. Basically articles must assume a certain level of knowledge in order to remain on topic. However, this article, being a stub, has a lot of room for improvement (Be bold if you can help out). Cheers—Cronholm144 09:23, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  stub status 

message: I agree that the given definition of "continuous symmetry"
is somewhat vague, however I like that the attempt is 
mathematical. However more mathematical references are needed.
In particular  I would like to see more mathematical references 
where to find more explicit details about the concept of "continuous symmetry".
I studied the basics about groups of transformations and 
what is generally called Lie theory, including representation theory, 
and was hoping to find a treatment of continuous symmetry purely, or at least mostly,
mathematical.  I have noticed that there are many physics articles
about continuos symmetry and probably even more about broken
continuous symmetries.  However such articles seem impenetrable 
to somebody like me who has not studied quantum mechanics.  
I guess what I am looking for is a book or article like G. Folland's 
fantastic treatment of the Heisenberg group in Harmonic Analysis in Phase Space,
(Princeton University Press, 1989),which is purely mathematical.
By the way, I almost bought a copy of the book by Howe & Barker (2007),
Continuous Symmetry, included as the only reference for this wikipedia article. It is an interesting, unique book,
however after briefly browsing
its pages I received the impression that is a synthetic 
treatment of Euclidean geometry using groups of transformations.
In fact I was not able to find anywhere the words "continuous" or "differentiable". Maybe they are somewhere there, but they are  not easy to find 
and they are not included in the index.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.173.6.105 (talk) 23:48, 26 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add more  mathematical references 

message: The article says some things about continuous symmetry, but doesn't concretely define it.
It ought to be more explicit. 133.48.64.176 (talk) 03:29, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too vague