In mathematics, the term infinitesimal generator may refer to:
- an element of the Lie algebra associated to a Lie group;
- the infinitesimal generator of a stochastic process;
- the infinitesimal generator of a strongly continuous semigroup.
Famous quotes containing the word generator:
“He admired the terrible recreative power of his memory. It was only with the weakening of this generator whose fecundity diminishes with age that he could hope for his torture to be appeased. But it appeared that the power to make him suffer of one of Odette’s statements seemed exhausted, then one of these statements on which Swann’s spirit had until then not dwelled, an almost new word relayed the others and struck him with new vigor.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)