Local product coordinates for a closed subgroup

ID: local-product-coordinates-for-a-closed-subgroup

Choose a vector subspace complementary to the Lie algebra of a closed subgroup . The differential of at is , so the inverse function theorem makes a local diffeomorphism. Sufficiently small nonzero cannot satisfy : otherwise limit directions of a closed subgroup give a nonzero element of . Consequently is locally exactly the coordinate slice , proving that it is an embedded submanifold.

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