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Note on faithful representations and a local property of Lie groups

Author(s): Nazih Nahlus
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 2767-2769.
MSC (1991): Primary 22E15, 22E60
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Abstract: Let $G$ be any analytic group, let $T$ be a maximal toroid of the radical of $G$, and let $S$ be a maximal semisimple analytic subgroup of $G$. If $L=\mathcal {L}(G)$ is the Lie algebra of $G$, $\mathrm {rad}[L,L]$ is the radical of $[L,L]$, and $\mathcal {Z}(L)$ is the center of $L$, we show that $G$ has a faithful representation if and only if (i) $\mathrm {rad}[L,L]\cap \mathcal{Z}(L)\cap \mathcal{L}(T)=(0)$, and (ii) $S$ has a faithful representation.


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Nazih Nahlus
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, American University of Beirut, c/o New York Office, 850 Third Ave., 18th floor, New York, New York 10022
Email: nahlus@layla.aub.edu.lb

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03893-8
PII: S 0002-9939(97)03893-8
Received by editor(s): October 26, 1995
Received by editor(s) in revised form: March 29, 1996
Communicated by: Roe Goodman
Copyright of article: Copyright 1997, American Mathematical Society


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