Symmetry group of a system
Given a general dynamical system (see On Physics from the beginning) consisting of a set
: the bijections of . Is the most general set of alternative descriptions of the space. This descriptions can be very crazy, how by an alien. : the bijections of preserving , i.e. automorphisms of . They are alternative descriptions of the system but preserving some "intuitive features". : the symmetry group of the dynamical system
Examples:
a). A classical Hamiltonian system consisting of a symplectic manifold
b). The set
c). A quantum mechanical system: a Hilbert space with a Hamiltonian