A flag is a strictly nested chain of vector subspaces of a fixed vector space. A complete flag contains a subspace of every possible dimension. For an action by linear maps, an invariant flag means that each of its vector subspaces is an invariant subspace. A basis adapted to an invariant complete flag makes all these maps upper triangular, connecting complete flags to simultaneous triangularization of a Lie algebra representation.
In the context of linear algebra, a "flag" is a specific type of nested sequence of subspaces of a vector space.
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