Bourbaki

Proposition 4

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Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter IX, § 2. Maximal tori of compact Lie groups

Let G be a compact Lie group, H a connected closed subgroup of G of maximal rank and N the normalizer of H in G. Then H is of finite index in N and is the identity component of N.

Indeed, the Lie algebra of H contains a Cartan subalgebra of L(G). Thus, by Chap. VII, §2, no. 1, Cor. 4 of Prop. 4, H is the identity component of N. Since N is compact, H is of finite index in N.

Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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