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TauCeti.Geometry.Lie.UniversalCover

The Lie algebra of the universal covering group #

Let G be a finite-dimensional real Lie group that is locally path-connected and semilocally simply connected. Its universal cover UniversalCover (1 : G) is a Lie group, and the covering homomorphism UniversalCover.projHom is a smooth local diffeomorphism. Its differential at the identity is therefore a linear isomorphism, so the Lie functor sends the covering homomorphism to a Lie-algebra isomorphism: the universal covering group and G have the same Lie algebra.

Main results #

References #

The universal covering projection of a Lie group is a local diffeomorphism at the identity.

The universal covering projection induces an equivalence between the Lie algebra of the universal covering group and the Lie algebra of the base group.

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    The Lie-algebra equivalence induced by the universal covering projection acts by the Lie functor.

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    The Lie homomorphism underlying the universal-cover Lie-algebra equivalence is the Lie map of the covering projection.

    The covering homomorphism of the universal cover of a Lie group induces a bijection, hence a Lie-algebra isomorphism, between the Lie algebras of left-invariant derivations.

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    The inverse of the Lie-algebra equivalence induced by the universal covering projection sends the Lie map of a derivation back to that derivation.

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    The Lie map of the universal covering projection sends the inverse Lie-algebra equivalence of a derivation back to that derivation.