Determining the Lie algebra of a matrix Lie group

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I have the following Lie group:

$$G:=\bigg\{\begin{pmatrix} x&0\\y &1/x\end{pmatrix}\bigg\vert x, y\in\mathbb{R} \land y\neq0\bigg\} $$

Now I should calculate the corresponding Lie algebra....

Obviously, $G$ is a subgrouo of the general linear group $\mathrm{GL}_{2}(\mathbb{R})$.....But i have no idea how to construct the Lie algebra, which is the set of all left invariant vector fields.

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Two parameters, so two generators, so one commutation relation. Has to be the affine group in one dimension, here transposed. $$ G= \begin{bmatrix} x & 0 \\ y & 1/x \end{bmatrix} $$ goes to the identity for $x=1, y=0$. At the identity, then, you have $$ \partial G/\partial x \to \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & -1 \end{bmatrix} \equiv a ~, $$ and $$ \partial G/\partial y \to \begin{bmatrix} 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 \end{bmatrix} \equiv b ~, $$ so, then, $$ [b,a]=2b . $$

Exponentiating an arbitrary linear combination of these two Lie algebra elements yields the generic form G you started with, since the relevant CBH expansion sums elegantly to a simple closed form: your starting point.

Consider the wisecrack $$ G= \begin{bmatrix} x & 0 \\ y & 1/x \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} x & 0 \\ 0 & 1/x \end{bmatrix} \begin{bmatrix} 1 & 0 \\ y x & 1 \end{bmatrix} = e^{(\ln x) ~a} e^{xy~ b} , $$ and its CBH contraction, $$ =\exp \left ( \ln x ~a -2xy\frac {\ln x}{1-x^2} b \right ) = e^{\omega(a + b y/\!\sinh \omega)}, $$ upon the definition $x\equiv e^\omega$.