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Two geometric character formulas for reductive Lie groups

Representation Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we prove two formulas for the characters of representations of reductive groups. Both express the character of a representation in terms of the same geometric data attached to it. When specialized to the case of a compact Lie group, one of them reduces to Kirillov's character formula in the compact case, and the other, to an application of the Atiyah-Bott fixed point formula to the Borel-Weil realization of the representation.

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@article{arxiv.math/9801081,
  title  = {Two geometric character formulas for reductive Lie groups},
  author = {Wilfried Schmid and Kari Vilonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/9801081},
  year   = {2007}
}