Fields that are also Manifolds

WWGD · Jan 16, 2015

Does anyone know of fields (with additional structure/properties) other than either ##\mathbb R, \mathbb C ## that are "naturally" manifolds?

Thanks.

WWGD · Jan 18, 2015

Just a comment that we could look at the two as groups and then the issue is whether these are Lie groups.

lavinia · Jan 18, 2015

WWGD said: ↑

Just a comment that we could look at the two as groups and then the issue is whether these are Lie groups.

Every Lie group is a manifold - in fact a differentiable manifold. I dont think there are any other fields that are a Euclidean space.

WWGD · Jan 18, 2015

Yes, thanks, that is where I was going with the comment. I don't know if there are similar results for fields; I was actually thinking of finite-dimensional vector spaces as manifolds, given that an f.d vector space over a field ##\mathbb F ## is isomorphic to ##\mathbb F^n ##

micromass · Jan 19, 2015

Hint: every "Lie field" must also be a commutative Lie group. And the connected commutative Lie groups are exactly of the form ##S^1\times ... \times S^1\times \mathbb{R}^n##.

More generally, you could be interested in topological fields. It turns out that the only connected, locally compact fields are ##\mathbb{R}## and ##\mathbb{C}##, but this is a tad more difficult to prove than the Lie case.

WWGD · Jan 23, 2015

Do you mean that the restriction of the Lie field to the additive (Abelian) group is a Lie group? And aren't ##S^3, S^7 ## also connected, commutative Lie groups? EDIT: Never mind, these are not Abelian.

lavinia · Jan 23, 2015

WWGD said: ↑

Do you mean that the restriction of the Lie field to the additive (Abelian) group is a Lie group? And aren't ##S^3, S^7 ## also connected, commutative Lie groups?

they are not commutative

WWGD · Jan 23, 2015

Yes, I just remembered and edited, sorry.

lavinia · Jan 23, 2015

WWGD said: ↑

Yes, I just remembered and edited, sorry.

also the octonians are not a group.

Here is a link that has a proof that the only spheres that are Lie groups are the circle and the 3 sphere.

http://math.stackexchange.com/quest...y-way-to-show-which-spheres-can-be-lie-groups

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