Let's recall that, a group $G$ being given, two subgroups $A,B\subset G$ are called permutable iff $AB=BA$ for the Minkowski law. It is straightforward to see that $(A,B)$ are permutable iff $AB$ is a subgroup of $G$. >Let now $G$ be a finite dimensional Lie group (real to begin with) and suppose that if $A,B\subset G$ are Lie subgroups (then closed by Cartan's theorem), one can easily show that, providing $G=AB$ and if it is a **factorization** (means that the decomposition is unique or, equivalently, $A\cap B=\{1_G\}$), then $Lie(A)\cap Lie(B)=\{0\}$ My questions are the following ><ul> <li>Q1) If $G=AB$ is a factorization ($A\cap B=\{1_G\}$), do we have $Lie(A)\oplus Lie(B)=Lie(G)$ ? <li> Q2) Does the result hold if we just have $G=AB$ (and still $Lie(A)\cap Lie(B)=\{0\}$) without supposing that $A\cap B=\{1_G\}$ ? <li> Q3) What are the references about these questions ? </ul> What was (and is still) not clear to me is why the **tangent map** of the multiplication $$ A\times B\rightarrow G $$ must be surjective. More precisely, the fact that it is a factorization provides a section $$s: G\rightarrow A\times B$$ (in fact an inverse bijection) but I am stuck in proving that it is C^1 (continuous would do, I think). Maybe the action of $A\times B$ on itself by $(a,b)*(x,y)=(ax,yb^{-1})$ could be exploited but I do not see how.