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Centralizer of a dense subgroup in a maximal subgroup of a reductive group

I am looking for a reference to the following statement "Let $G$ be a reductive algebraic group and $K$ a maximal compact subgroup of $G$. If $H$ is a dense subgroup in $K$, then the centralizer of $H$...
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Is there a way to see a topological group as the "Cayley graph" of its "infinitesimal generators"?

At the time of writing, the most recent blog post over at What's new by Terrence Tao is Cayley graphs and the geometry of groups, and that (excellent, as with most of Tao's writing) post most ...
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