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 | | This can be seen by noting that the case of a line parallel with the real or imaginaryaxis maps to a line or circle. |
 | | The "exponential map" sending a Lie algebra to the Lie group that gave rise to it shares the above properties, which explains theterminology. |
 | | Similarly,since the Lie algebra M(n, R) of all square real matrices belongs to the Lie group of all invertiblesquare matrices, the exponential function for square matrices is a special case of the Lie algebra exponential map. |
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