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Polar decomposition and exponentiation are fundamental tools in the theory of finite-dimensional Lie groups and Lie algebras. We do not consider these notions here in their full generality, but restrict attention to their matricial aspects.
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Serre, D. (2010). Exponential of a Matrix, Polar Decomposition, and Classical Groups. In: Matrices. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 216. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7683-3_10
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