Arxiv:1208.0416V2 [Math.RT] 6 Sep 2012 Itoutr)Gaut Ore Ntesubject
REPRESENTATIONS OF COMPLEX SEMI-SIMPLE LIE GROUPS AND LIE ALGEBRAS APOORVA KHARE† Abstract. This article is an exposition of the 1967 paper by Parthasarathy, Ranga Rao, and Varadarajan, on irreducible admissible Harish-Chandra modules over complex semisimple Lie groups and Lie algebras. It was written in Winter 2012 to be part of a special collection organized to mark 10 years and 25 volumes of the series Texts and Readings in Mathematics (TRIM). Each article in this collection is intended to give nonspecialists in its field, an appreciation for the impact and contributions of the paper being surveyed. Thus, the author has kept the prerequisites for this article down to a basic course on complex semisimple Lie algebras. While it arose out of the grand program of Harish-Chandra on admissible representations of semisimple Lie groups, the work by Parthasarathy et al also provided several new insights on highest weight modules and related areas, and these results have been the subject of extensive research over the last four decades. Thus, we also discuss its results and follow-up works on the classification of irreducible Harish-Chandra modules; on the PRV conjecture and tensor product multiplicities; and on PRV determinants for (quantized) affine and semisimple Lie algebras. Contents 1. Notation and preliminaries 3 2. Harish-Chandra modules 5 3. Tensor products, minimal types, and the (K)PRV conjecture 10 4. IrreducibleBanachspacerepresentations 15 5. The rings Rν,Π′ and the PRV determinants 21 6. Representations of class zero 26 7. Conclusion: The classification of irreducible Harish-Chandra modules 27 References 29 arXiv:1208.0416v2 [math.RT] 6 Sep 2012 Lie groups and Lie algebras occupy a prominent and central place in mathematics, connecting differential geometry, representation theory, algebraic geometry, number theory, and theoretical physics.
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