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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808664403321

Titolo

New developments in lie theory and geometry : Sixth Workshop on Lie Theory and Geometry, November 13-17, 2007 : Cruz Chica, Córdoba, Argentina / / Carolyn S. Gordon [and three others], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

0-8218-8170-1

0-8218-4651-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (363 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 491 , 0271-4132

Disciplina

512/.482

Soggetti

Representations of Lie groups

Homogeneous spaces

Geometry, Differential

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents --  Preface --  Einstein solvmanifolds and nilsolitons --  1. Introduction --  2. Structure and uniqueness results on Einstein solvmanifolds --  3. Technical background --  4. Variational approach to Einstein solvmanifolds --  5. On the classification of Einstein solvmanifolds --  6. Known examples and non examples --  7. A stratification for the variety of nilpotent Lie algebras --  8. The stratification and the standard condition --  9. The stratification and Einstein solvmanifolds via closed orbits --  10. Open problems --  11. Appendix: Real geometric invariant theory --  Algebraic sets associated to isoparametric submanifolds --  Mostow strong rigidity and nonisomorphism for outer automorphism groups of free groups and mapping class groups --  1. Introduction and statements of results --  2. Nonisomorphisms between different types of groups --  3. Proof of Mostow rigidity for Out(Fn) --  4. Proof of Mostow rigidity for Mod+g,p --  Spectral properties of flat manifolds --  1. Introduction --  2. Flat manifolds --  3. Spectrum and isospectrality of compact flat manifolds --  4. Closed geodesics --  5. P-isospectral examples --  6. Self-intersection of closed geodesics --  7. Poisson summation formulas --  



8. Flat orbifolds --  Heat content, heat trace, and isospectrality --  LR-algebras --  Combinatorial properties of generalized binomial coefficients --  Spherical functions for the action of a finite unitary group on a finite Heisenberg group --  Application of the Weil representation: diagonalization of the discrete Fourier transform --  Infinite dimensional multiplicity free spaces II: Limits of commutative nilmanifolds --  Certain components of Springer fibers: algorithms, examples and applications --  Weighted Vogan diagrams associated to real nilpotent orbits --  The Gelfand-Zeitlin integrable system and its action on generic elements of gl(n) and so(n) --  Closed orbits of semisimple group actions and the real Hilbert-Mumford function --   Introduction --  Section 1: Moment map and minimal vectors --  Section 2: The set of vectors with closed G-orbits --  Section 3: The M-function --  Section 4: The index method --  Section 5: Examples --  New techniques for pointed Hopf algebras.