Classification theorem
In mathematics, a classification theorem answers the classification problem "What are the objects of a given type, up to some equivalence?". It gives a non-redundant enumeration: each object is equivalent to exactly one class.
A few issues related to classification are the following.
- The equivalence problem is "given two objects, determine if they are equivalent".
- A complete set of invariants, together with which invariants are realizable, solves the classification problem, and is often a step in solving it.
- A computable complete set of invariants (together with which invariants are realizable) solves both the classification problem and the equivalence problem.
- A canonical form solves the classification problem, and is more data: it not only classifies every class, but provides a distinguished (canonical) element of each class.
There exist many classification theorems in mathematics, as described below.
Geometry
- Classification of Euclidean plane isometries
- Classification theorems of surfaces
- Classification of two-dimensional closed manifolds
- Enriques–Kodaira classification of algebraic surfaces (complex dimension two, real dimension four)
- Nielsen–Thurston classification which characterizes homeomorphisms of a compact surface
- Thurston's eight model geometries, and the geometrization conjecture
- Berger classification
- Classification of Riemannian symmetric spaces
- Classification of 3-dimensional lens spaces
- Classification of manifolds
Algebra
- Classification of finite simple groups
- Artin–Wedderburn theorem — a classification theorem for semisimple rings
- Classification of Clifford algebras
- Classification of low-dimensional real Lie algebras
- Classification of Simple Lie algebras and groups
- Bianchi classification
- ADE classification
- Langlands classification
Linear algebra
Analysis
Complex analysis
Mathematical physics
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