Abelian Lie group

In geometry, an abelian Lie group is a Lie group that is an abelian group.

A connected abelian real Lie group is isomorphic to ${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{k}\times (S^{1})^{h}}${\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{k}\times (S^{1})^{h}}.^[1] In particular, a connected abelian (real) compact Lie group is a torus; i.e., a Lie group isomorphic to ${\displaystyle (S^{1})^{h}}${\displaystyle (S^{1})^{h}}. A connected complex Lie group that is a compact group is abelian and a connected compact complex Lie group is a complex torus; i.e., a quotient of ${\displaystyle \mathbb {\mathbb {C} } ^{n}}${\displaystyle \mathbb {\mathbb {C} } ^{n}} by a lattice.

Let A be a compact abelian Lie group with the identity component ${\displaystyle A_{0}}${\displaystyle A_{0}}. If ${\displaystyle A/A_{0}}${\displaystyle A/A_{0}} is a cyclic group, then ${\displaystyle A}${\displaystyle A} is topologically cyclic; i.e., has an element that generates a dense subgroup.^[2] (In particular, a torus is topologically cyclic.)

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