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Images are immersed Lie subgroups
Statement
Assume . The image of a smooth Lie-group homomorphism has a unique immersed Lie-subgroup structure for which the corestriction is a surjective submersion. Its Lie algebra is .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: and a smooth Lie-group homomorphism ; put and as a set of left cosets.
is a closed embedded normal Lie subgroup and . The Axiom of Countable Choice (), Kernels are closed embedded normal Lie subgroups.
has constant rank and local form . Lie-group homomorphisms have constant rank, The constant-rank theorem for manifolds.
Quotient topology and its universal property characterize continuous maps constant on quotient fibres. The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection, For a quotient map , a map out of is continuous iff its composite with is; a continuous map on constant on the fibres of factors uniquely through ; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map, A continuous open surjection, a continuous closed surjection, and a continuous surjection admitting a continuous section are all quotient maps.
Proof
Give the quotient topology and let be the coset map. It is open because is a union of right translates of an open set . It is Hausdorff: the equivalence relation is the closed set , and if , a product neighborhood disjoint from gives disjoint open quotient neighborhoods and . Images under the open map of a countable basis of form a countable basis of .
In a constant-rank product chart from [F1], choose the transverse slice obtained by setting the kernel coordinates to zero. The restriction is bijective onto : points have the same -value exactly when they differ by an element of , and the normal form makes each local fibre meet once. It is a homeomorphism because an open subset of thickens in the kernel coordinates to an open subset of with the same -image. These charts make a Hausdorff second-countable smooth manifold and make locally the projection , hence a surjective submersion. Their changes are smooth because each has the smooth local section supplied by its slice.
Normality of gives its quotient group law. Multiplication and inversion are smooth: near any arguments, choose the smooth local sections from step 2.1 and express the descended maps as and . Thus is a Lie group and is a smooth homomorphism.
Define by . Algebraically this is a well-defined injective homomorphism with image . In the local coordinates of step 2.1 and the target constant-rank chart, is , so it is a smooth immersion. Therefore with the transported intrinsic structure is an immersed Lie subgroup, and .
At the identity, . The differential is surjective with kernel by the local projection and [A1], while is injective. Hence , which is the tangent algebra of the immersed image.
If another manifold structure on the same image makes the corestriction from a surjective submersion, its local smooth sections show that the identity map in either direction is locally a composite of that corestriction with a local section for the other structure. Thus the identity is a diffeomorphism and the structure is unique. Rank zero, trivial image, noninjective , and disconnected groups are included. Nothing in the construction identifies the intrinsic topology with the subspace topology of ; no embeddedness or closedness conclusion is asserted. Choice is inherited only through [A1].
Depends on
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Kernels are closed embedded normal Lie subgroups
- Lie-group homomorphisms have constant rank
- The constant-rank theorem for manifolds
- The quotient topology of a surjection, quotient maps, saturated sets, and the quotient of a space by an equivalence relation with its canonical projection
- For a quotient map $q : X \to Y$, a map out of $Y$ is continuous iff its composite with $q$ is; a continuous map on $X$ constant on the fibres of $q$ factors uniquely through $q$; and a composite of quotient maps is a quotient map
- A continuous open surjection, a continuous closed surjection, and a continuous surjection admitting a continuous section are all quotient maps
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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)