Weblectures Lie Groups 2012, University of Utrecht

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Lie Groups

Date Lecture Covered material
Feb 15th Lecture 1 - part 1
Lecture 1 - part 2
Section 2: Lie groups: definition and basic properties.
Feb 22nd Lecture 2 - part 1
Lecture 2 - part 2
Section 3: invariant vector fields, the exponential map; Section 4: the Lie algebra of a Lie group, up to Lemma 4.9.
Feb 29th Lecture 3 - part 1
Lecture 3 - part 2
Rest of section 4; Section 5: commuting elements, component of the identity.
Mar 7th Lecture 4 - part 1
Lecture 4 - part 2
Section 6: commutative Lie groups; Section 7: Lie subgroups, except for the proof of Lemma 7.7: the Lie algebra of a Lie subgroup.
Mar 14th Lecture 5 - part 1
Lecture 5 - part 2
Proof of Lemma 7.7: the Lie algebra of a Lie subgroup; Section 9: closed subgroups; Section 10: the groups SU(2) and SO(3).
Mar 21st Lecture 6 - part 1
Lecture 6 - part 2
Section 10: the groups SU(2) and SO(3), completion; Section 11; Section 12: Lemma 12.4, the uniqueness part of theorem 12.5.
Mar 28th Lecture 7 - part 1
Lecture 7 - part 2
Sections 12, 13, 14, 16, 17.
Apr 4th Lecture 8 - part 1
Lecture 8 - part 2
Few comments on section 15; part of section 19.
Apr 11th Lecture 9 - part 1
Lecture 9 - part 2
Section 19 and part of section 20.
Apr 18th Lecture 10 - part 1
Lecture 10 - part 2
Sections 20, 21, 23.
Apr 25th Lecture 11 - part 1
Lecture 11 - part 2
Sections 22, 26, 27.
May 2nd Lecture 12 - part 1
Lecture 12 - part 2
Sections 29, 30 and part of section 31.
May 9th Lecture 13 - part 1
Lecture 13 - part 2
Sections 31-35.
May 16th Lecture 14 - part 1
Lecture 14 - part 2
Sections 33, 34 and 36 up to Proposition 36.6.
May 23rd Lecture 15 - part 1
Lecture 15 - part 2
Sections 36, 37 and 38.1 up to Lemma 38.4.
May 30th Lecture 16 - part 1
Lecture 16 - part 2
Sections 38.1, 38.2, 38.3 and 38.5.