Unitary Representations of Reductive Lie Groups

David A. Vogan Jr.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780691084824, 9780691084817
• eBook ISBN: 9781400882380
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Linear Algebra
• Index: Mathematics

This book is an expanded version of the Hermann Weyl Lectures given at the Institute for Advanced Study in January 1986. It outlines some of what is now known about irreducible unitary representations of real reductive groups, providing fairly complete definitions and references, and sketches (at least) of most proofs.


The first half of the book is devoted to the three more or less understood constructions of such representations: parabolic induction, complementary series, and cohomological parabolic induction. This culminates in the description of all irreducible unitary representation of the general linear groups. For other groups, one expects to need a new construction, giving "unipotent representations." The latter half of the book explains the evidence for that expectation and suggests a partial definition of unipotent representations.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 COMPACT GROUPS AND THE BOREL–WEIL THEOREM
• CHAPTER 2 HARISH–CHANDRA MODULES
• CHAPTER 3 PARABOLIC INDUCTION
• CHAPTER 4 STEIN COMPLEMENTARY SERIES AND THE UNITARY DUAL OF GL(n,ℂ)
• CHAPTER 5 COHOMOLOGICAL PARABOLIC INDUCTION: ANALYTIC THEORY
• CHAPTER 6 COHOMOLOGICAL PARABOLIC INDUCTION: ALGEBRAIC THEORY
• INTERLUDE: THE IDEA OF UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 7 FINITE GROUPS AND UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 8 LANGLANDS’ PRINCIPLE OF FUNCTORIALITY AND UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 9 PRIMITIVE IDEALS AND UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 10 THE ORBIT METHOD AND UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 11 K-MULTIPLICITIES AND UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 12 ON THE DEFINITION OF UNIPOTENT REPRESENTATIONS
• CHAPTER 13 EXHAUSTION
• REFERENCES