Due April 25.

In each exercise, you can use the previous exercises/items.

Let \(M\) be a smooth manifold and \(V \in \mathfrak {X}(M)\) a vector field. Assume there is \(\varepsilon > 0\), a collection \(\{ W_i \} _{i \in I}\) of open sets of \(M\), and a collection of maps \( \{ \Phi _i : W_i \times (-\varepsilon , \varepsilon ) \to M \} _{i \in I } \) such that \(\Phi _i\) is a local flow of \(V\) and
\[ M \subset \bigcup _{i \in I} W_i . \]
Show that there is a flow \(\Phi : M \times \mathbb {R} \to M\) of \(V\) (defined everywhere for all time).
Let \(M\) be a smooth manifold and \(V \in \mathfrak {X}(M)\) a vector field. The support supp\((V)\) of \(V\) is defined as the topological closure of the set
\[ \{ x \in M \, \vert \, V( x) \neq 0 \} . \]
Show that if supp\((V)\) is compact, then there is a flow \(\Phi : M \times \mathbb {R} \to M\) of \(V\) (defined everywhere for all time).
Let \(M\) be a connected smooth manifold. Show that for any points \(p , q \in M\) there is a diffeomorphism \(f : M \to M\) with \(f(p) = q\).
Let \(G\) be a Lie group.
  • Show that for each \(g \in G\), the map \(L_g : G \to G\) given by \(L_g(h) : = gh\) is a diffeomorphism.
  • Fix \(v \in T_eG\). For each \(g \in G\), define \(V(g) \in T_gG\) as

    \[ V(g) : = (L_g)_{\ast }(v).\]
    Show that \(V\) is a smooth vector field and that \(V\) is \(L_h\)-related to itself for each \(h \in G\).
  • Take \(V \in \mathfrak {X}(G)\) as in the previous item. Show that there is a flow \(\Phi : G \times \mathbb {R} \to G\) of \(V\) (defined everywhere for all time).
  • With \(V\in \mathfrak {X}(G)\) as in the previous exercises, take the flow line \(\gamma : \mathbb {R} \to G\) with \(\gamma (0) = e\). Show that \(\gamma \) is a group morphism from \(\mathbb {R} \) to \(G\). We write

    \[ \exp (t v) : = \gamma (t) . \]
Show that \(GL(n;\mathbb {R}) : = \{ A \in M_n (\mathbb {R}) \, \vert \, \det (A) \neq 0 \} \) is a Lie group. Then show that for any \(A \in M_n(\mathbb {R}) = T_{Id} GL(n; \mathbb {R})\) one has
\[ \exp ( A ) = e ^A : = \sum _{j = 0 }^{\infty } \frac {A^k}{k!} . \]