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    Graduate How does exp relate a Lie group to its Lie algebra?

    You said matrix groups. I.e. the answer is rep-dependent. So I was right?
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    Graduate How does exp relate a Lie group to its Lie algebra?

    I feel like this has to have already been addressed somewhere, but apparently my search skills are lacking. I rarely hear a mathematician talk about a Lie group and its generating algebra as related via the exponential map, though I have seen it somewhere. When I do see it, it requires more...