208 <strong>Index</strong> and continuity, 171 and uniform continuity, 172 in general topology, 170 in R k , 169 <strong>of</strong> O(n) and SO(n), 169 <strong>of</strong> O(n) and SO(n), 188 <strong>of</strong> U(n),SU(n), andSp(n), 169 via finite subcover property, 170 complexification, 107, 108 <strong>of</strong> su(n), 110 <strong>of</strong> u(n), 109 concatenation, 174, 175, 180 congruence ≡ <strong>Lie</strong> , 155 conjugation, 14 detects failure to commute, 78 in SU(2), 74 reflected by <strong>Lie</strong> bracket, 74, 81, 98 rotation by, 14 continuity, 160 and compactness, 171 definition, 166 in general topology, 167 <strong>of</strong> basic functions, 167 <strong>of</strong> det, 164, 165 <strong>of</strong> matrix multiplication, 164 <strong>of</strong> matrix-valued function, 161 theory <strong>of</strong>, 46 uniform, 172 and compactness, 172 <strong>of</strong> deformations, 194 <strong>of</strong> paths, 194 via open sets, 167 continuous groups, 46 continuous groups see <strong>Lie</strong> groups 45 convergence, 85 coset, 24 cover, 170 and subcover, 170 covering, 179 and quotient, 201 double, 190 <strong>of</strong> S 1 by R, 179 <strong>of</strong> SO(3) by SU(2), 190 universal, 201 cross product, 13 is an operation on R 3 ,13 is <strong>Lie</strong> bracket on su(2),82 is not associative, 13 satisfies Jacobi identity, 13 curve see path 173 cylinder, 42, 188 Dedekind, Richard, 117 deformation, 160, 177 in small steps, 195 in the plate trick, 184 lifting, 180 with endpoints fixed, 180 Degen, Ferdinand, 22 del Ferro, Scipione, 19 determinant and absolute value, 5 and orientation, 38, 50 and quaternion absolute value, 8 as a homomorphism, 31, 107, 120 is continuous, 164, 165 multiplicative property, 6, 31 <strong>of</strong> exp, 100, 102 <strong>of</strong> quaternion matrix, 58, 59 <strong>of</strong> unitary matrix, 55 dimension, 106 invariance <strong>of</strong>, 107, 149 <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Lie</strong> algebra, 107 <strong>of</strong> a <strong>Lie</strong> group, 107 <strong>of</strong> so(n), 106 <strong>of</strong> sp(n), 106 <strong>of</strong> su(n), 106 <strong>of</strong> u(n), 106 Diophantus, 6 and two-square identity, 18 Arithmetica,6 direct product, 23, 40, 42, 132, 138 direct sum, 132 discreteness, 69 distance and absolute value, 7, 161
<strong>Index</strong> 209 between matrices, 161 in Euclidean space, 161 distributive law, 7 dot product see inner product 13 Eichler, Martin, viii, 139, 153, 159 eight-square identity, 22 Engel, Friedrich, 92 Euclidean space, 161 Euler, Leonhard, 11 exponential formula, 75 four-square identity, 11, 22 exceptional groups, viii, 22, 45, 46 exp see exponential function 74 exponential function, 74 addition formula, 76, 96, 100, 141 complex, 56, 75 <strong>of</strong> matrices, 74, 84 definition, 86 provides smooth paths, 93 quaternion, 60, 77 exponential map into <strong>Lie</strong> groups, 91 into Riemannian manifolds, 92 is not onto SL(2,C), 92, 111, 177 <strong>of</strong> tangent vectors, 143 onto SO(2), 75 onto SO(3), 99 onto SU(2), 77 finite fields, 202 finite simple groups, 45, 202 finite subcover property, 170 four-square identity, 11 discovered by Euler, 11 Frobenius, Georg, 21, 73 G 2 ,45 Galois theory, 45 Galois, Evariste, 45, 202 Gauss, Carl Friedrich, 11 geodesics, 92 GL(n,C), 108 closed subgroups <strong>of</strong>, 182 Her All-embracing Majesty, 165 is noncompact, 110 is not simple, 122 is open in M n (C), 166 is path-connected, 111, 175 not closed in M n (C), 165 gl(n,C), 108 is not simple, 122 GL(n,H), 111 gl(n,H), 111 subspaces <strong>of</strong>, 112 Gleason, Andrew, 159 Graves, <strong>John</strong>, 22 great circle, 17 reflection in, 17 group abelian, 24, 41, 202 additive notation, 24 affine, 74, 87 center, 61 classical, vii, 80, 82, 93, 113 commutative, 1 continuous, 45 generated by infinitesimals, 91 has finite analogue, 202 coset decomposition <strong>of</strong>, 25 definition, 24 direct product, 40 discrete, 69, 72, 118, 183 finite, 114, 151 <strong>of</strong> <strong>Lie</strong> type, 203 simple, 45, 202 fundamental, 201 general linear, 93, 108 Heisenberg, 72 homomorphism definition, 29 kernel <strong>of</strong>, 29 preserves structure, 29 identity component, 54 isomorphism, 29 <strong>Lie</strong> see <strong>Lie</strong> groups vii
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