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List of lemmas

This following is a list of lemmas (or, "lemmata", i.e. minor theorems, or sometimes intermediate technical results factored out of proofs). See also list of axioms, list of theorems and list of conjectures.

Algebra

Abhyankar's lemma Aubin–Lions lemma Bergman's diamond lemma Fitting lemma Injective test lemma Hua's lemma (exponential sums) Krull's separation lemma Schanuel's lemma (projective modules) Schwartz–Zippel lemma Shapiro's lemma Stewart–Walker lemma (tensors) Whitehead's lemma (Lie algebras) Zariski's lemma

Algebraic geometry Abhyankar's lemma Fundamental lemma (Langlands program)

Category theory

Five lemma Horseshoe lemma Nine lemma Short five lemma Snake lemma Splitting lemma Yoneda lemma

Linear algebra Matrix determinant lemma Matrix inversion lemma

Group theory Burnside's lemma also known as the Cauchy–Frobenius lemma Frattini's lemma (finite groups) Goursat's lemma Mautner's lemma (representation theory) Ping-pong lemma (geometric group theory) Schreier's subgroup lemma Schur's lemma (representation theory) Zassenhaus lemma

Polynomials Gauss's lemma (polynomials) Schwartz–Zippel lemma

Ring theory and commutative algebra Artin–Rees lemma Hensel's lemma (commutative rings) Nakayama lemma Noether's normalization lemma Prime avoidance lemma

Universal algebra Jónsson's lemma

Analysis

Fekete's lemma Fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations Hopf lemma Sard's lemma (singularity theory) Stechkin's lemma (functional and numerical analysis) Vitali covering lemma (real analysis) Watson's lemma

Complex analysis Estimation lemma (contour integrals) Hartogs's lemma (several complex variables) Jordan's lemma Lemma on the Logarithmic derivative Schwarz lemma

Fourier analysis Riemann–Lebesgue lemma

Differential equations Borel's lemma (partial differential equations) Grönwall's lemma Lax–Milgram lemma Pugh's closing lemma Weyl's lemma (Laplace equation) (partial differential equations)

Differential forms Poincaré lemma of closed and exact differential forms

Functional analysis Cotlar–Stein lemma Ehrling's lemma Riesz's lemma

Mathematical series Abel's lemma Kronecker's lemma

Numerical analysis Bramble–Hilbert lemma Céa's lemma

Applied mathematics

Danielson–Lanczos lemma (Fourier transforms) Farkas's lemma (linear programming) Feld–Tai lemma (electromagnetism) Little's lemma (queuing theory) Finsler's lemma

Control theory Finsler's lemma Hautus lemma Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma

Computational complexity theory Isolation lemma Switching lemma

Cryptography Forking lemma Leftover hash lemma Piling-up lemma (linear cryptanalysis) Yao's XOR lemma

Formal languages Interchange lemma Newman's lemma (term rewriting) Ogden's lemma Pumping lemma sometimes called the Bar-Hillel lemma

Microeconomics Hotelling's lemma Shephard's lemma

Combinatorics Cousin's lemma (integrals) Dickson's lemma Littlewood–Offord lemma Pólya–Burnside lemma Sperner's lemma Ky Fan lemma (combinatorial geometry)

Graph theory

Berge's lemma Counting lemma Crossing lemma Expander mixing lemma Handshaking lemma Kelly's lemma Kőnig's lemma Szemerédi regularity lemma

Order theory Higman's lemma Ultrafilter lemma

Dynamical systems Barbalat's lemma Kac's lemma (ergodic theory)

Geometry Shadowing lemma Big-little-big lemma (mathematics of paper folding) Gordan's lemma Hilbert's lemma

Euclidean geometry Archimedes's lemmas Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma (Euclidean geometry)

Hyperbolic geometry Margulis lemma

Metric spaces Lebesgue's number lemma (dimension theory)

Riemannian geometry Gauss's lemma (Riemannian geometry)

Mathematical logic Craig interpolation lemma Diagonal lemma Lindenbaum's lemma Mostowski collapse lemma Teichmüller–Tukey lemma also known as Tukey's lemma Zorn's lemma; equivalent to the axiom of choice

Set theory

Covering lemma Delta lemma Dynkin lemma Fodor's lemma Fixed-point lemma for normal functions (axiomatic set theory) Moschovakis coding lemma Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma

Number theory

Bézout's lemma Dwork's lemma Euclid's lemma Gauss's lemma Hensel's lemma Zolotarev's lemma Siegel's lemma (Diophantine approximation)

Analytic number theory Hua's lemma Vaughan's lemma

Diophantine equations Bhaskara's lemma

Sieve theory Fundamental lemma of sieve theory

Probability theory Borel–Cantelli lemma Doob–Dynkin lemma Itô's lemma (stochastic calculus) Lovász local lemma Stein's lemma Wald's lemma

Statistics Glivenko–Cantelli lemma Neyman–Pearson lemma Robbins lemma

Measure theory Factorization lemma Fatou's lemma Frostman's lemma (geometric measure theory) Malliavin's absolute continuity lemma

Topology Lindelöf's lemma Urysohn's lemma Tube lemma

Differential topology Morse lemma

Fixed-point theory

Knaster–Kuratowski–Mazurkiewicz lemma

Geometric topology Dehn's lemma

Topological groups and semigroups Ellis–Numakura lemma (topological semigroups)

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