I often see connected compact simple Lie groups represented as surfaces.
My question is, are the underlying topological spaces of all compact connected simple Lie groups non-homeomorphic?
If this is true, could you outline the reason?
Note compactness is needed because of the counterexample (R,+) and (R^+,*). And non-simple counterexamples also exist such as U(2) and SU(2)xU(1).