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I'm not going to answer your second question since I don't know the answer, but as for your first question, many physics students will definitely find this article too technical (while trying to learn quantum field theory on their own). It's not quite that any information is missing for them to
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understand the article, but rather that they will have absolutely no idea what this is talking about until the exponential map is mentioned and they finally notice how matrix groups are Lie groups. At the same time, this article is linked to in a lot of articles on QFT.
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