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Recent advances in branching problems of representations

Representation Theory 2024-12-31 v2 Differential Geometry

Abstract

How does an irreducible representation of a group behave when restricted to a subgroup? This is part of branching problems, which are one of the fundamental problems in representation theory, and also interact naturally with other fields of mathematics. This expository paper is an up-to-date account on some new directions in representation theory highlighting the branching problems for real reductive groups and their related topics ranging from global analysis of manifolds via group actions to the theory of discontinuous groups beyond the classical Riemannian setting. This article is an outgrowth of the invited lecture that the author delivered at the commemorative event for the 70th anniversary of the re-establishment of the Mathematical Society of Japan, and originally appeared in Japanese in Sugaku 71 (2019).

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@article{arxiv.2112.00642,
  title  = {Recent advances in branching problems of representations},
  author = {Toshiyuki Kobayashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.00642},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

English translation from Sugaku, 71 (2019), 388-416

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