Lie bracket from local group commutators

ID: lie-bracket-from-local-group-commutators

In a local exponential chart, the mixed second differential of the group commutator defines a bilinear map on the tangent space at the identity. Inversion after swapping the two group elements proves antisymmetry. Differentiating conjugation gives ; applying naturality of the Lie bracket to the Adjoint representation of a Lie group then proves the Jacobi identity. For a matrix group this recovers by expanding through the mixed term.

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