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Throughout this chapter, G will be a compact Lie group. It acts on itself by means of conjugation; we shall write:
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Duistermaat, J.J., Kolk, J.A.C. (2000). Compact Lie Groups. In: Lie Groups. Universitext. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56936-4_3
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