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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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Isomorphism between Spin(3,2) and Sp(4, R)

I've been using the fact that Spin(3,2) is isomorphic to Sp(4, R) for a while, but I've never seen a proof. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good reference?
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Iwasawa decomposition of the pseudo-orthogonal group

This is a soft-question, but I haven't found an answer anywhere: do the factors of the Iwasawa decomposition of the pseudo-orthogonal group SO(p, q) have a simple form, in the same way that the facto …
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orbits of automorphism group for indefinite lattices

There's a simple criterion for equivalence of two vectors in a lattice if the lattice contains two copies of the hyperbolic plane: you look at the length of the vector and its image in the discriminan …
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