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G/H need not be a quotient Lie group
False statement
Assume . For every closed subgroup of a Lie group , the homogeneous space has a Lie-group structure making the coset map a homomorphism.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , with its discrete zero-dimensional Lie-group structure, and with its discrete subgroup structure.
Under , a closed subgroup gives a smooth homogeneous space . The Axiom of Countable Choice (), Quotient manifold by a closed Lie subgroup.
A closed normal subgroup does give a quotient Lie group; normality is the extra hypothesis in the quotient-group theorem. Quotient by a closed normal subgroup is a Lie group.
Refutation
Proof technique: contradiction from the kernel of the proposed quotient homomorphism.
Every finite discrete group is a zero-dimensional Lie group: singleton charts take values in , and every map between discrete manifolds is smooth. Thus is a Lie group and its subgroup is closed. By [A1], the three-element left-coset space has its quotient smooth-manifold structure.
The subgroup is not normal. Indeed, conjugating its nonidentity element by the -cycle gives .
Suppose a group law on this set made the usual coset map a group homomorphism. Its kernel would be exactly , because if and only if , equivalently . Every homomorphism kernel is normal: if is in the kernel, then . Hence would be normal, contradicting step 1.2.
Therefore the smooth homogeneous space admits no group structure for which the coset map is a homomorphism. The quotient theorem [F1] is sharp: closedness supplies the manifold, whereas normality is necessary for the quotient group law. This finite witness has neither endpoint nor positive-dimensional issue, and its algebraic obstruction is choice-free; is used only to invoke the library's general homogeneous-space supplier [A1].
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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)