MA4E0 Lie Groups December 5, 2012 Contents 0 Topological Groups 1 1 Manifolds 2 2 Lie Groups 3 3 The Lie Algebra 6 4 The Tangent space 8 5 The Lie Algebra of a Lie Group 10 6 Integrating Vector fields and the exponential map 13 7 Lie Subgroups 17 8 Continuous homomorphisms are smooth 22 9 Distributions and Frobenius Theorem 23 10 Lie Group topics 24 These notes are based on the 2012 MA4E0 Lie Groups course, taught by John Rawnsley, typeset by Matthew Egginton. No guarantee is given that they are accurate or applicable, but hopefully they will assist your study. Please report any errors, factual or typographical, to
[email protected] i MA4E0 Lie Groups Lecture Notes Autumn 2012 0 Topological Groups Let G be a group and then write the group structure in terms of maps; multiplication becomes m : G × G ! G −1 defined by m(g1; g2) = g1g2 and inversion becomes i : G ! G defined by i(g) = g . If we suppose that there is a topology on G as a set given by a subset T ⊂ P (G) with the usual rules. We give G × G the product topology. Then we require that m and i are continuous maps. Then G with this topology is a topological group Examples include 1. G any group with the discrete topology 2. Rn with the Euclidean topology and m(x; y) = x + y and i(x) = −x 1 2 2 2 3. S = f(x; y) 2 R : x + y = 1g = fz 2 C : jzj = 1g with m(z1; z2) = z1z2 and i(z) =z ¯.