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In this chapter, we will contemplate how Lie groups embed in one another. Our aim is not to be systematic or even completely precise but to give the reader some tools for thinking about the relationships between different Lie groups.
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Bump, D. (2013). Embeddings of Lie Groups. In: Lie Groups. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 225. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8024-2_30
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