Continuity criterion for locally bounded automorphisms of connected reductive Lie groups (Q2239362)

A real analytic group \(G\) is said to be \textit{ reductive} if it has a faithful representation and all its representations are reductive. Equivalently, the center \(Z\) of \(G\) is compact and the commutator subgroup \(DG\) is a semisimple group with a faithful representation. This paper provides a continuity criterion for locally bounded automorphisms of connected reductive Lie groups (note that for example a one-dimensional torus \(T\) is a reductive Lie group admitting discontinuous automorphisms). \textbf{Theorem}. Let \(G\) be a connected reductive Lie group and let \(\pi\) be a (not necessarily continuous) automorphism of \(G\). The automorphism \(\pi\) is continuous (in the original topology of the group \(G\)) if and only if the restriction \(\pi|Z\) of \(\pi\) to the center \(Z\) of \(G\) is continuous with respect to the same topology.