A Cartan decomposition for p-adic loop groups.
We show that a Poisson Lie group (G,π) is coboundary if and only if the natural action of G×G on M=G is a Poisson action for an appropriate Poisson structure on M (the structure turns out to be the well known ). We analyze the same condition in the context of Hopf algebras. A quantum analogue of the structure on SU(N) is described in terms of generators and relations as an example.
Let A be a locally convex, unital topological algebra whose group of units is open and such that inversion is continuous. Then inversion is analytic, and thus is an analytic Lie group. We show that if A is sequentially complete (or, more generally, Mackey complete), then has a locally diffeomorphic exponential function and multiplication is given locally by the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff series. In contrast, for suitable non-Mackey complete A, the unit group is an analytic Lie group without...