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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815372703321

Titolo

Representation theory and mathematical physics : conference in honor of Gregg Zuckerman's 60th birthday, October 24-27, 2009, Yale University / / Jeffrey Adams, Bong Lian, Siddhartha Sahi, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-8218-8236-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (404 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, ; 557 , 0271-4132

Classificazione

22E4522E4622E4717B6517B6817B6933D52

Disciplina

515/.7223

Soggetti

Linear algebraic groups

Representations of Lie groups

Mathematical physics

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 --  Expository Papers --  The Plancherel Formula, the Plancherel Theorem, and the Fourier Transform of Orbital Integrals --  Branching Problems of Zuckerman Derived Functor Modules --  Chiral Equivariant Cohomology of Spheres --  1. Introduction --  2. Homotopy invariance --  3. Conformal and quasi-conformal structures --  4. Chiral equivariant cohomology of homogeneous spaces --  5. Finite-dimensionality of Hâ??G(M) for compact M --  6. Chiral equivariant cohomology of spheres --  7. The chiral point algebra --  Research Papers --  Computing Global Characters --  Stable Combinations of Special Unipotent Representations --  Levi Components of Parabolic Subalgebras of Finitary Lie Algebras --  On Extending the Langlands-Shahidi Method to Arithmetic Quotients of Loop Groups --  The Measurement of Quantum Entanglement and Enumeration of Graph Coverings --  The Dual Pair (Op,q,OSp2,2) and Zuckerman Translation --  On the Algebraic Set of Singular Elements in a Complex Simple Lie Algebra --  An Explicit Embedding of Gravity and the Standard Model in E8 --  From Groups to Symmetric Spaces --  1. Notation --  2. Almost diagonal symmetric spaces --  3. A generalization of Schur's lemma --  4. Elliptic curves arising from a symmetric space --  5. Dimension of a nilpotent orbit --  6. Some



intersection cohomology sheaves --  7. Generalization of a theorem of Steinberg --  8. F-thin, F-thick nilpotent orbits --  9. F-thin nilpotent orbits and affine canonical bases --  10. Character sheaves on p --  11. Computation of a Fourier transform --  12. Another computation of a Fourier transform --  13. Computation of a Deligne-Fourier transform.