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Feb 6, 2022 at 17:41 comment added Terry Tao In the same spirit: thanks to the deep results of Montgomery-Zippin, Gleason, and Yamabe resolving Hilbert's fifth problem, the definition of a Lie group can be relaxed from "smooth finite-dimensional group" to "locally Euclidean topological group".
Feb 13, 2011 at 23:09 comment added ndkrempel The first example isn't in quite the same spirit - since a Lie subgroup need not be closed.
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Feb 9, 2011 at 22:42 history edited Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 2.5
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Feb 9, 2011 at 22:36 comment added Steven Sam Related: if a smooth manifold is equipped with a group structure, then smoothness of the multiplication map implies smoothness of the inversion map by the inverse function theorem.
Feb 9, 2011 at 22:22 history answered Georges Elencwajg CC BY-SA 2.5