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Lie groups are without doubt the most important special class of differentiable manifolds. Lie groups are differentiable manifolds which are also groups and in which the group operations are smooth. Well-known examples include the general linear group, the unitary group, the orthogonal group, and the special linear group.
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© 1983 Frank W. Warner
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Warner, F.W. (1983). Lie Groups. In: Foundations of Differentiable Manifolds and Lie Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 94. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-1799-0_3
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