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An important theorem of Cartan asserts that any two maximal tori in a compact Lie group are conjugate. We will give two proofs of this, one using some properties of geodesics in a Riemannian manifold and one using some algebraic topology. The reader will experience no loss of continuity if he reads one of these proofs and skips the other. The proof in this chapter is simpler and more self-contained.
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Bump, D. (2004). Geodesics and Maximal Tori. In: Lie Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 225. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4094-3_16
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