LEFT-INVARIANT FLAT RIEMANNIAN STRUCTURES ON LIE GROUPS

A left-invariant flat Riemannian connection on a Lie group makes its Lie algebra a left symmetric algebra compatible with an inner product. The left symmetric algebra is decomposed into trivial ideal and a subalgebra of e(l). Using this result, the Lie group is embedded isomorphically into the direct product of O(l) $\times$ $R^{k}$ for some nonnegative integers l and k.