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1Historical Background and Informal Introduction to Lie Theory
2Differentiable Manifolds, Differentiable Functions, Vector Fields, Tangent Spaces
3Tangent Spaces; Mappings and Coordinate Representation

Submanifolds
4Affine Connections

Parallelism; Geodesics

Covariant Derivative
5Normal Coordinates

Exponential Mapping
6Definition of Lie Groups

Left-invariant Vector Fields

Lie Algebras

Universal Enveloping Algebra
7Left-invariant Affine Connections

The Exponential Mapping

Taylor's Formula in a Lie Group Formulation

The Group GL (n, R)
8Further Analysis of the Universal Enveloping Algebra

Explicit Construction of a Lie Group (locally) from its Lie Algebra

Exponentials and Brackets
9Lie Subgroups and Lie Subalgebras

Closer Subgroups
10Lie Algebras of some Classical Groups

Closed Subgroups and Topological Lie Subgroups
11Lie Transformation Groups

A Proof of Lie's Theorem
12Homogeneous Spaces as Manifolds

The Adjoint Group and the Adjoint Representation
13Examples

Homomorphisms and their Kernels and Ranges
14Examples

Non-Euclidean Geometry

The Associated Lie Groups of Su (1, 1) and Interpretation of the Corresponding Coset Spaces
15The Killing Form

Semisimple Lie Groups
16Compact Semisimple Lie Groups

Weyl's Theorem proved using Riemannian Geometry
17The Universal Covering Group
18Semi-direct Products

The Automorphism Group as a Lie Group
19Solvable Lie Algebras

The Levi Decomposition

Global Construction of a Lie Group with a given Lie Algebra
20Differential 1-forms

The Tensor Algebra and the Exterior Algebra
21Exterior Differentiation and Effect of Mappings

Cartan's Proof of Lie's Third Theorem
22Integration of Forms

Haar Measure and Invariant Integration on Homogeneous Spaces
23Maurer-Cartan Forms

The Haar Measure in Canonical Coordinates
24Invariant Forms and Harmonic Forms

Hodge's Theorem
25Real Forms

Compact Real Forms, Construction and Significance
26The Classical Groups and the Classification of Simple Lie Algebras, Real and Complex

 








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