by Jing-SongHuang (Author), PavlePandzic (Author)
This book presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. 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. The book is an excellent contribution to the mathematical literature of representation theory, and this self-contained exposition offers a systematic examination and panoramic view of the subject. The material will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in representation theory, differential geometry, and physics.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 209
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: 21 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0817632182
ISBN 13: 9780817632182
This book contains a more detailed explanation of the results from several recent papers of the authors. The book is aimed at a somewhat broader audience. Clifford algebras are presented rather thoroughly. Some basics of Lie groups and their representations are mostly relegated to earlier literature. There is a good introduction to the so-called cohomological induction, which is short but still gives the main ideas of some parts of the proofs. - MathSciNet