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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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Are maximal connected semisimple subgroups automatically closed?

If G is a simply connected Lie group and H a connected semisimple Lie subgroup then H is closed. Mostow Ann.Math. 1950, p. 615.
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Parallel forms and cohomology of symmetric spaces

As mentioned above, an invariant form on G/H is harmonic. The converse is proved in Helgason's book (1978), pages 227 and 564. The case of G itself is a theorem of Hodge.
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