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Left-invariant vector fields evaluate isomorphically at the identity
Statement
Assume . Let and be the real vector spaces of left- and right-invariant smooth vector fields on a Lie group . Evaluation at the identity gives linear isomorphisms
and
Their respective inverses send to
The countable-choice assumption is used exactly through the supplied invariant-field and smooth translation-trivialization results.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , a Lie group with identity , and a vector .
is countable choice. The Axiom of Countable Choice ().
Invariance is equivalent to the appropriate identity-value formula. Left- and right-invariant vector fields.
The maps and are smooth vector-bundle isomorphisms. Translations are diffeomorphisms and their differentials trivialize the tangent bundle.
Proof
Pointwise addition and scalar multiplication preserve smooth vector fields. Because each differential is linear, they also preserve left invariance; the same holds on the right. Thus and are real vector spaces, and evaluation at is linear on each.
Fix . The map is a smooth section of the product bundle . Composing it with the left trivialization in [F3] shows that is a smooth vector field. Its identity-value formula makes it left invariant by [F2], and .
Conversely, [F2] forces every to satisfy at every . Hence , so and are mutually inverse linear maps.
Replacing the left trivialization by the right trivialization in [F3] gives a smooth field . The right identity-value characterization in [F2] proves invariance and uniqueness, while gives . Thus is the inverse of .
A Lie group is nonempty. If , then and both invariant-field spaces contain only the zero field, so both evaluation maps are the unique zero-dimensional isomorphisms; dimension one needs no change. No metric or nondegeneracy condition occurs, and the group is boundaryless by convention. The stated is inherited through [F2] and [F3]; fixing the supplied vector and performing pointwise linear operations adds no choice. The theorem asserts two explicit isomorphisms, not a biconditional.
Depends on
Used by
- Lie bracket on the tangent space of a Lie group Definition
- Maurer--Cartan form is a pointwise isomorphism and left invariant Proposition
- Right-invariant fields carry the opposite Lie bracket Proposition
- Differential of a Lie-group homomorphism is a Lie-algebra homomorphism Theorem
- Maurer--Cartan structure equation Theorem
- One-parameter subgroups are integral curves of left-invariant fields Theorem
- The differential of Ad is ad Theorem
- The tangent space at the identity is a Lie algebra Theorem
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Sources
- Anthony W. Knapp, Lie Groups Beyond an Introduction, 2nd ed. (standard reference, not scraped)
- Alexander Kirillov Jr., An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras (standard reference, not scraped)