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Lie Groups are Groups that are additionally smooth manifolds such that the multiplication and the inverse maps are smooth.

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Ree groups and Moufang octagons

Only having $k$ as subfield of $\ell$ is not sufficient (for both questions). The Ree groups (and the generalized octagons) are determined by a pair $(k, \theta)$, where $k$ is a field of characterist …
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Constructing $E_8$ from its branching to $A_8$

An excellent reference for this kind of descriptions (and for many other facts about $E_8$!) is Skip Garibaldi's paper "$E_8$, the most exceptional algebraic group" in the Bulletin of the AMS (here). …
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Maximal split torus of universal chevalley group

By Lemma 28(b), $H$ is an abelian group generated by the $h_i(t)$'s (where $h_i = h_{\alpha_i}$), and since each $h_i$ is multiplicative (by Lemma 28(a)), the existence follows. To prove uniqueness, …
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