Lie Groups

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4419-1937-3
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 225, 454 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 702 g

Reihe: Graduate Texts in Mathematics

This book proceeds beyond the representation theory of compact Lie groups (which is the basis of many texts) and offers a carefully chosen range of material designed to give readers the bigger picture. It explores compact Lie groups through a number of proofs and culminates in a "topics" section that takes the Frobenius-Schur duality between the representation theory of the symmetric group and the unitary groups as unifying them.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bump, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Algebraische Strukturen, Gruppentheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Preface * Part I: Compact Groups: Haar Measure * Schur Orthogonality * Compact Operators * The Peter-Weyl Theorem * Part II: Lie Group Fundamentals: Lie Subgroups of GL(n, C) * Vector Fields * Left Invariant Vector Fields * The Exponential Map * Tensors and Universal Properties * The Universal Enveloping Algebra * Extension of Scalars * Representations of sl(2, C) * The Universal Cover * The Local Frobenius Theorem * Tori * Geodesics and Maximal Tori * Topological proof of Cartan’s Theorem * The Weyl Integration Formula * The Root System * Examples of Root Systems * Abstract Weyl Groups * The Fundamental Group * Semisimple Compact Groups * Highest Weight Vectors * The Weyl Character Formula * Spin * Complexification * Coxeter Groups * The Iwasawa Decomposition * The Bruhat Decomposition * Symmetric Spaces * Relative Root Systems.* Embeddings of Lie Groups * Part III: Frobenius-Schur Duality: Mackey Theory * Characters of GL(n, C) * Duality between Sk and GL(n, C) * The Jacobi-Trudi Identity * Schur Polynomials and GL(n, C) * Schur Polynomials and Sk * Random Matrix Theory * Minors of Toeplitz Matrices * Branching Formulae and Tableaux * The Cauchy Identity * Unitary branching rules * The Involution Model for Sk * Some Symmetric Algebras * Gelfand Pairs * Hecke Algebras * Cohomology of Grassmannians * References

Über Autor(innen)

Bump, Daniel
Daniel Bump is Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University. His research is in automorphic forms, representation theory and number theory. He is a co-author of GNU Go, a computer program that plays the game of Go. His previous books include Automorphic Forms and Representations (Cambridge University Press 1997) and Algebraic Geometry (World Scientific 1998).