Equivariant Analytic Localization of Group Representations

Download or read book Equivariant Analytic Localization of Group Representations written by Laura Ann Smithies and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of producing geometric constructions of the linear representations of a real connected semisimple Lie group with finite center, $G_0$, has been of great interest to representation theorists for many years now. A classical construction of this type is the Borel-Weil theorem, which exhibits each finite dimensional irreducible representation of $G_0$ as the space of global sections of a certain line bundle on the flag variety $X$ of the complexified Lie algebra $\mathfrak g$ of $G_0$.In 1990, Henryk Hecht and Joseph Taylor introduced a technique called analytic localization which vastly generalized the Borel-Weil theorem. Their method is similar in spirit to Beilinson and Bernstein's algebraic localization method, but it applies to $G_0$ representations themselves, instead of to their underlying Harish-Chandra modules. For technical reasons, the equivalence of categories implied by the analytic localization method is not as strong as it could be. In this paper, a refinement of the Hecht-Taylor method, called equivariant analytic localization, is developed. The technical advantages that equivariant analytic localization has over (non-equivariant) analytic localization are discussed and applications are indicated.