Abelian, in mathematics, is used in many different definitions, named after Norwegian mathematician
Niels Henrik Abel:
In group theory:
In Galois theory:
- Abelian extension, a field extension for which the associated Galois group is abelian
In real analysis:
In functional analysis
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