Why Are Lie Groups Considered Manifolds?

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Shaun Culver

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Jan 9, 2008

Why are Lie groups also manifolds?

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waht

Jan 9, 2008

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.

DeadWolfe

Jan 9, 2008

It's true by definition.

Shaun Culver

Jan 9, 2008

Thank you.

Why Are Lie Groups Considered Manifolds?

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