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A Lie group is a group and smooth manifold whose multiplication and inversion are smooth. A Lie algebra is a vector space with a bilinear alternating bracket satisfying the Jacobi identity. For a Matrix Lie group , a logarithmic chart of a matrix Lie group near sends to ; the matrix exponential is its local inverse, and the Baker--Campbell--Hausdorff formula makes the local group operations smooth.
For , consider the group commutator
Its logarithm takes values in the vector space , and expansion at gives
Thus is closed under the commutator. Bilinearity, alternation, and the Jacobi identity follow from matrix multiplication, so this proves that the Lie algebra of a matrix Lie group has
A principal bundle with structure group is a smooth fiber bundle with a free right -action, each fiber a single orbit, and equivariant local trivializations .
For the right action of the unitary group on , define
The matrix is a positive-definite matrix and a Hermitian matrix, and for . The polar decomposition of an invertible complex matrix gives the unique factorization
Consequently
is a diffeomorphism. If is a neighborhood of zero and , then is an open neighborhood of , it is a union of complete orbits, and
Moreover, two matrices have the same value of exactly when they differ by right multiplication by a unitary matrix. Thus induces the smooth identification
under which is projection . This is the general linear group modulo the unitary group, and is in fact a globally trivial principal -bundle.

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