On subsemigroups of semisimple Lie groups (Q5917781)

The main objective is to provide an answer to the following question: Given a Lie group \(G\) and two elements \(A\) and \(B\) in the Lie algebra \(\mathcal L\) of \(G\), when does the union of the one-parameter semigroup generated by \(A\), \(\{\exp(tA), t\in \mathbb{R}^+\}\), and the one-parameter subgroup generated by \(B\), \(\{\exp(tB), t\in \mathbb{R}\}\), generate the Lie group \(G\)? When \(G\) is a real, connected and semisimple Lie group with finite center, the authors give sufficient conditions on the elements \(A\) and \(B\) of \(\mathcal L\), so that the above semigroup and subgroup generate \(G\). Their result has an immediate formulation in terms of affine control systems evolving on \(G\), giving sufficient conditions for controllability.