Timeline for Exponential map
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| Feb 17, 2013 at 16:42 | comment | added | Peter Michor | @Robert. In fact I share your sentiment and I upvoted it. In my "aside" I described a an attempt to include the full diffeomorphism groups. I just wanted to point out that in the class of Lie groups with charts, up to now nobody found an example without exponential map. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 17:59 | comment | added | Robert Bryant | @Peter: I suppose you can argue that the modern notion of Lie group should be whittled down to fit the Procrustean bed of modern mathematics, but I think that something is lost when you throw out the examples that motivated the theory in the first place. Certainly, if you forbid yourself to read Lie and Cartan, you will lose a lot. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 15:08 | history | answered | Peter Michor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |