Splittable Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

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, Algebraic Groups, and Lie Groups

These notes are an introduction to Lie algebras, algebraic groups, and Lie groups in characteristic zero, emphasizing the relationships between these objects visible in their categories of representations. Eventually these notes will consist of three chapters, each about 100 pages long, and a short appendix. Single paper copies for noncommercial personal use may be made without explicit permiss...

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.

Representations of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras

This paper studies the relationship between representations of a Lie group and representations of its Lie algebra. We will make the correspondence in two steps: First we shall prove that a given representation of a Lie group will provide us with a corresponding representation of its Lie algebra. Second, we shall go backwards and see whether a given representation of a Lie algebra will have a co...