Timeline for Looking for general approaches to show connectedness of topological groups
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| Mar 25, 2011 at 0:40 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | Just as an afterthought, a direct proof that U(n) is connected; diagonalize, and then join each eigenvalue to 1 by moving it round the unit circle. | |
| Mar 25, 2011 at 0:20 | comment | added | Hugo Chapdelaine | Hi Neil, thanks a lot for your amazingly simple proof that $GL_n(\mathbf{C})$ is connected! | |
| Mar 24, 2011 at 21:55 | history | answered | Neil Strickland | CC BY-SA 2.5 |