Images and quotients of SO(3,R): remarks on a theorem of Van der Waerden (Q1824045)
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Images and quotients of SO(3,R): remarks on a theorem of Van der Waerden (English)
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1987
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The purpose of this paper is to present a new elementary proof of a special case (for the group \(SO_ 3({\mathbb{R}}))\) of B. L. van der Waerden's theorem of 1933 on the continuity of homomorphisms of simple Lie groups to compact groups.
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continuity of homomorphisms
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simple Lie groups
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compact groups
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