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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 55 1 c Solution by
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Take the frame dual to the left-invariant coframe of the translation-dilation group. It isIndeed . These are left-invariant vector fields, either because they are dual to invariant forms or because . For instance, the curve differentiates to , while differentiates to .
The coordinate Lie brackets satisfyFor the first identity only the derivative of the coefficient contributes. The linear map is a Lie algebra isomorphism: it preserves all basis brackets, is injective by independence of the frame, and is onto the three-dimensional space of left-invariant vector fields.
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