Why Are Lie Groups Considered Manifolds?

Shaun Culver
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Why are Lie groups also manifolds?
 
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A manifold equipped with a special binary operation that satisfies the axioms of a group is a Lie group, named after Sophus Lie who discovered that binary operation.
 
It's true by definition.
 
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