Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
The purpose of the present note is to reform Mr. K. Nomizu’s result on the group of all affine transformations of an affinely connected manifold. We shall prove the following.
THEOREM. The group of all affine transformations of an affinely connected manifold is a Lie group.
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