Timeline for Left invariant metric on ${\rm SL}_n(\mathbb{R})$
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| Sep 28, 2012 at 15:41 | comment | added | paul garrett | Sure, we know in advane that there is a Riemannian metric... the above is not quite it, but has tha elementary description if one wants. | |
| Sep 28, 2012 at 11:12 | comment | added | Deane Yang | Theo, many thanks for the correction. | |
| Sep 28, 2012 at 3:19 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | @Deane, for the question of distance functions, probably you have to be careful when your group has $\pi_0$. But your general point is correct. | |
| Sep 28, 2012 at 2:35 | comment | added | Deane Yang | I'm lost here. Doesn't any Lie group have a left invariant Riemannian metric and therefore a left invariant "ordinary metric"? | |
| Sep 27, 2012 at 21:17 | history | answered | paul garrett | CC BY-SA 3.0 |