title: Infinitesimal generator
text: # Infinitesimal generator
  
  In mathematics, the term infinitesimal generator may refer to:
  
  * an element of the Lie algebra, associated to a Lie group
  * Infinitesimal generator (stochastic processes), of a stochastic process
  * infinitesimal generator matrix, of a continuous time Markov chain, a class of stochastic processes
  * Infinitesimal generator of a strongly continuous semigroup
  