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Exponentiality of Certain Real Solvable Lie Groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Martin Moskowitz
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics CUNY Graduate Center 33 W 42 Street New York NY 10036 USA, e-mail: [email protected]
Michael Wüstner
Affiliation:
Fachbereich Mathematik Technische Universität Darmstadt Schloßgartenstraße 7 64289 Darmstadt Germany, e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

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In this article, making use of the second author’s criterion for exponentiality of a connected solvable Lie group, we give a rather simple necessary and sufficient condition for the semidirect product of a torus acting on certain connected solvable Lie groups to be exponential.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1998

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