Subgroups of compact Lie groups containing a maximal torus are closed
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Abstract:
We prove the claim made in the title. As a corollary, we obtain that a compact Lie group $G$ has only finitely many subgroups containing a fixed maximal torus. The special case $G = U(n)$ was dealt with in a recent paper of Borevich and Krupeckiĭ.References
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- © Copyright 1981 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 83 (1981), 431-432
- MSC: Primary 22E15; Secondary 20G20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1981-0624947-4
- MathSciNet review: 624947