TITLE: Pushforward of inverse map at the identity?
QUESTION [11 upvotes]: Let $G$ be a Lie group and $i:G \rightarrow G$ denote the inversion map $i(x) = x^{-1}$.
(Notation: $f_*$ is the pushforward map $F_*:T_pG \rightarrow T_{i(p)}G$ which takes $(F_{*}X)(f)=X(f\circ F)$ and $X$ is a tangent vector, $X\in T_pG$.)
I wish to show that $i_{*}:T_{e}G\rightarrow T_{e}G$  is given by $i_{*}(X)=-X$
As a first step, it is trivial to prove that $i_*$ is an involution as $\mbox{Id}_{*}=(i\circ i)_{*}=i_{*}\circ i_{*}$ but I can't seem to make any further progress. Any help would be appreciated.

REPLY [4 votes]: This is a proof using just the definition of a Lie group. Let $m: G\times G \to G$ be the multiplication, then
$$ dm_e : T_{(e,e)} (G\times G) \cong T_eG \oplus T_eG \to T_e G$$
is given by $(X, Y) \mapsto X+Y$. This is true as clearly $dm_e (X, 0) =X$, $dm_e (0, Y) = Y$ and that $dm_e$ is linear.
The composition
$$ G \overset{(\operatorname{id}, i)}{\to} G\times G \overset{m}{\to}G$$
is constant (everything maps to $e$). Using the chain rule we have (for all $X\in T_eG$)
$$ 0= dm_e ( \operatorname{id}_* X, i_* X) = X + i_*X,$$
thus $i_*X = -X$.