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A new Lie group associated to a given Lie group

Let $G$ be a Lie group with Lie algebra $\mathcal{g}$. We fix an orientation for $G$ naturally arises from a left invariant Riemannian metric. We denote by $H$ the group of all orientation preserving diffeomorphisms $f$ of $G$ such that for every $X\in \mathcal{g}$ we have $f^* X$ belong to $\mathcal{g}$.

Is there a natural Lie group structure for $H$ which contains $G$ as a closed normal subgroup? How can the constant curvature of $H$ and also its Lie algebra be related to those objects for $G$?

As a simplest example we get the group of affine linear maps $x\mapsto ax+b,\quad a>0$ of the real line when $G=\mathbb{R}$, a model of Poincare upper plane.

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