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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 17 3 c Solution by
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The correspondence in part (a) respects Lie brackets. If the Lie algebra is abelian, any two left-invariant vector fields satisfy everywhere, not just at the identity. Part (b) therefore gives for every such pair.
At a point , the map is an isomorphism. Thus every tangent vector at is the value of a left-invariant vector field. The two-form consequently vanishes on every pair of tangent vectors at every point, provingNo connectedness assumption on the Lie group is needed: the argument uses its left translations and its abelian Lie algebra.
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