Book Details

Dirac Operators in Representation Theory

Publication year: 2006

: 978-0-8176-4493-2

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This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Dirac operators are widely used in physics, differential geometry, and group-theoretic settings (particularly, the geometric construction of discrete series representations). The related concept of Dirac cohomology, which is defined using Dirac operators, is a far-reaching generalization that connects index theory in differential geometry to representation theory. Using Dirac operators as a unifying theme, the authors demonstrate how some of the most important results in representation theory fit together when viewed from this perspective.


: Mathematics and Statistics, Lie algebra, Representation theory, cohomology, differential geometry, homology