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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2023 iii Paper 302 1 f Solution by
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The Exponential map of a Lie group sends to and is a local diffeomorphism at zero. Every element of is an exponential of a skew-symmetric matrix, but no determinant- element of is an exponential because .
A representation always integrates uniquely to the simply connected covering group . It descends to exactly when the nontrivial element in the kernel of acts trivially. Extending it further to disconnected requires an additional parity operator compatible with conjugation by a reflection. Thus the Lie-algebra representation alone need not define a representation of all of .
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