Lie Groups, Lie Algebras

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CRC Press, 1968 - Mathematics - 229 pages
Polished lecture notes provide a clean and usefully detailed account of the standard elements of the theory of Lie groups and algebras. Following nineteen pages of preparatory material, Part I (seven brief chapters) treats "Lie groups and their Lie algebras"; Part II (seven chapters) treats "complex semi-simple Lie algebras"; Part III (two chapters) treats "real semi-simple Lie algebras". The page design is intimidatingly dense, the exposition very much in the familiar "definition/lemma/proof/theorem/proof/remark" mode, and there are no exercises or bibliography. (NW) Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
 

Contents

A Algebra
1
B Functions of Operators
9
E Topological Groups
19
Local and Global Properties
43
The Lie Algebra
51
The Exponential Function
62
Subgroups and Subalgebras
73
Important examplesthe classical matrix groups
83
Representations of Complex SemiSimple Algebras
142
The radical splitting theorem Existence of
159
Real SemiSimple Lie Algebras 1772
172
Compact Connected Lie Groups
220
Index
227
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