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The differential of Ad is ad
Statement
Assume . Let be a finite-dimensional real Lie group with Lie algebra . Under the canonical open-subset identification
the differential of the adjoint representation at the identity is
Consequently . The countable-choice assumption is used exactly through the supplied smooth invariant-field, tangent-bracket, exponential, and vector-field pushforward interfaces.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: , a finite-dimensional real Lie group with identity , Lie algebra , and .
is countable choice. The Axiom of Countable Choice ().
The adjoint map is smooth and satisfies . Adjoint is a smooth Lie-group representation, Conjugation and the adjoint representation of a Lie group.
Left and right translations are and ; the left-invariant extension is . Left and right translations on a Lie group, Left- and right-invariant vector fields, Left-invariant vector fields evaluate isomorphically at the identity.
The tangent bracket is characterized by . Lie bracket on the tangent space of a Lie group.
The curve is the one-parameter subgroup and the integral curve of through . One-parameter subgroups are integral curves of left-invariant fields.
For the flow of a field , , and . The Lie derivative of a vector field, The Lie derivative of a vector field equals the Lie bracket.
Diffeomorphism pushforward is defined by its differential on field values. Pushforwards and pullbacks of vector fields by a diffeomorphism.
Differentials obey the chain rule. The chain rule for differentials of smooth maps.
The adjoint Lie-algebra representation satisfies and . Adjoint representation of a Lie algebra.
Proof
For , the identity and the chain rule show that : at the point both sides equal .
By [F5] and left invariance, is the global flow of : differentiating gives . Since left and right translations commute, is left invariant for every . Therefore left translation fixes that field, and gives .
Differentiate the last identity of step 1.2 at . By the inverse-time convention and equality in [F6], its right side has derivative , where the last equality is [F4]. Step 1.1 identifies the left side with . Evaluating the differentiated fields at thus yields .
The curve has initial velocity by [F5]. Apply the chain rule [F8] to and then to the linear evaluation map . Under , step 2.1 becomes . Since this holds for every , .
The final commutator identity follows from [F9], now with the map in [F9] identified by step 3.1 with the differential of the group adjoint representation.
A Lie group is nonempty and boundaryless. If , every tangent space in the claim is zero; in dimension one the Lie bracket and both sides are zero, while the same proof applies. Degenerate adjoint maps are allowed. The flows are global, so there is no endpoint issue, and no metric occurs. The only choice use is the stated , inherited through [F2]--[F7]; fixing two tangent vectors and differentiating their specified curves adds no choice. No biconditional is asserted.
Depends on
- The Axiom of Countable Choice ($\mathrm{AC}_\omega$)
- Adjoint is a smooth Lie-group representation
- Conjugation and the adjoint representation of a Lie group
- Adjoint representation of a Lie algebra
- Left and right translations on a Lie group
- Left- and right-invariant vector fields
- Left-invariant vector fields evaluate isomorphically at the identity
- Lie bracket on the tangent space of a Lie group
- One-parameter subgroups are integral curves of left-invariant fields
- Pushforwards and pullbacks of vector fields by a diffeomorphism
- The Lie derivative of a vector field
- The Lie derivative of a vector field equals the Lie bracket
- The chain rule for differentials of smooth maps
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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)
- Robert L. Bryant, An Introduction to Lie Groups and Symplectic Geometry (standard reference, not scraped)