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Differential groups and their Lie algebras. (English) Zbl 0762.58008

A differential group is a differential space which is also a group and in which the group operations are smooth. The paper begins with a presentation of the basic notions in this topic. Next, the authors investigate the tangent space and the Lie algebra of all left invariant vector fields on a differential group. In the last section it is shown that for any differential group there exists a unique covariant derivative with respect to which all left invariant vector fields are parallel.
Reviewer: W.Mozgawa (Lublin)

MSC:

58A40 Differential spaces
22A99 Topological and differentiable algebraic systems