Integrating central extensions of Lie algebras via Lie 2-groups

Chapter 2 Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

The symmetry groups that arise most often in the applications to geometry and differential equations are Lie groups of transformations acting on a finite-dimensional manifold. Since Lie groups will be one of the cornerstones of our investigations, it is essential that we gain a basic familiarity with these fundamental mathematical objects. The present chapter is devoted to a survey of a number ...

Central Extensions of Some Lie Algebras

We consider three Lie algebras: Der C((t)), the Lie algebra of all derivations on the algebra C((t)) of formal Laurent series; the Lie algebra of all differential operators on C((t)); and the Lie algebra of all differential operators on C((t)) ⊗ Cn. We prove that each of these Lie algebras has an essentially unique nontrivial central extension. The Lie algebra of all derivations on the Laurent ...

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

A Lie group is, roughly speaking, an analytic manifold with a group structure such that the group operations are analytic. Lie groups arise in a natural way as transformation groups of geometric objects. For example, the group of all affine transformations of a connected manifold with an affine connection and the group of all isometries of a pseudo-Riemannian manifold are known to be Lie groups...

Lie Algebras and Lie Brackets of Lie Groups–matrix Groups

The goal of this paper is to study Lie groups, specifically matrix groups. We will begin by introducing two examples: GLn(R) and SLn(R). Then in each section we will prove basic results about our two examples and then generalize these results to general matrix groups.