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Associated with each Lie algebra there is a Lie group. The notion of groups of transformations precedes that of Lie algebras and is more general than it. A set of elements A,B, C., forms a group G if it satisfies the following axioms:
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Iachello, F. (2006). Lie Groups. In: Lie Algebras and Applications. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 708. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36239-8_3
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