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A Lie subalgebra need not integrate to a closed subgroup
Statement
False claim: every Lie subalgebra of the Lie algebra of a Lie group is the Lie algebra of a closed Lie subgroup.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , an irrational real number , the torus , and the line
Under , every Lie subalgebra has a unique connected immersed integral Lie subgroup. The Axiom of Countable Choice (), Lie subgroup–Lie subalgebra correspondence.
The irrational winding is an injectively immersed Lie-group homomorphism into , and its image is dense. The irrational torus flow is free with dense orbits.
Connected components of a topological manifold are open, and connected components in any space are closed. Components of a topological manifold are open and at most countable, The components of a space are its maximal connected subsets, they partition it, and each of them is closed.
Finite products of connected spaces are connected, and continuous images of connected spaces are connected. A product of connected spaces is connected in the product topology, and that argument is a theorem of ZF; for an infinite index set it is the assertion that the product of nonempty spaces is nonempty that uses the Axiom of Choice, A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property.
Refutation
The torus Lie algebra is abelian, so every linear subspace is bracket closed; in particular is a Lie subalgebra. The derivative of the winding at has image , and its source is connected. Thus [F2] makes a connected immersed integral subgroup for . It is not all of : its intersection with is the countable set , not the whole circle. Since [F2] also makes it dense, it is not closed.
Suppose, for contradiction, that a closed Lie subgroup has Lie algebra . Let be the connected component of its identity. By [F3], is open and closed in . It is a subgroup: multiplication maps the connected space continuously into a connected subset containing the identity, and inversion does the same to , so [F4] puts both images in the identity component. With the open submanifold structure, has and is a connected immersed Lie subgroup of .
Uniqueness in [F1], applied to steps 1.1 and 1.2, identifies as an immersed subgroup with . But is closed in by [F3] and is closed in by the assumption in step 1.2, so is closed in , contradicting step 1.1.
Therefore the irrational line is not the Lie algebra of any closed Lie subgroup, even though [F1] integrates it uniquely to the connected immersed winding. This refutes the claim. The argument assumes only the stated , inherited by the correspondence theorem.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Lie subgroup–Lie subalgebra correspondence
- The irrational torus flow is free with dense orbits
- Components of a topological manifold are open and at most countable
- The components of a space are its maximal connected subsets, they partition it, and each of them is closed
- A product of connected spaces is connected in the product topology, and that argument is a theorem of ZF; for an infinite index set it is the assertion that the product of nonempty spaces is nonempty that uses the Axiom of Choice
- A continuous image of a connected space is connected, and connectedness is a topological property
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Sources
- John M. Lee, Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, 2nd ed. (standard reference, not scraped)
- Pavel Etingof, MIT 18.745 Lie Groups and Lie Algebras I (standard reference, not scraped)