General Linear Group over the quaternions is a topological group

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The classical group $GL_n(\mathbb{H})$ is in fact a Lie group, hence also a topological group. We have $$\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb{H}) = \{g \in \mathrm{GL}(2n, \mathbb{C})|Jg = \overline{g}J, \mathrm{det}( g) \ne 0\} \equiv \mathrm{U}^*(2n),$$ which is a Lie group, see here.