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Mathematical Excursion: Non-compact Lie Groups

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Compact and non-compact Lie groups differ from each other in their essential properties (which will be discussed later), so we should investigate the group quality “compactness” more fully.

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Greiner, W., Müller, B. (1994). Mathematical Excursion: Non-compact Lie Groups. In: Quantum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57976-9_15

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