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Note on the Group of Affine Transformations of an Affinely Connected Manifold

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Jun-Ichi Hano  and
Akihiko Morimoto
Jun-Ichi Hano
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Nagoya University
Akihiko Morimoto
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, Nagoya University
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The purpose of the present note is to reform Mr. K. Nomizu’s result on the group of all affine transformations of an affinely connected manifold. We shall prove the following.

THEOREM. The group of all affine transformations of an affinely connected manifold is a Lie group.

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Research Article
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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 8 , February 1955 , pp. 71 - 81
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1955

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