Every Lie algebra corresponds to a single simply connected Lie group.
The Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula basically defines how to map an algebra to the group.
Furthermore, the non-compact part is always isomorphic to , only the non-compact part can have more interesting structure.
The most important example is perhaps and , both of which have the same Lie algebra, but are not isomorphic.
E.g. in the case of and , is simply connected, but is not.

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