The Magnus expansion is a continuous analogue of the Hausdorff series in Lie theory. It is the basis for some methods applying Lie theory to non-autonomous linear differential equations for linear operators.
The Magnus expansion was proposed in
(1954) [doi:10.1002/cpa.3160070404]
Surveys:
Path signature generalized to surface signature (for surface iterated integrals) and related to Lie algebra crossed modules in
A post-Lie algebra version
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