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Dirac series for some real exceptional Lie groups

Representation Theory 2020-05-12 v5

Abstract

Up to equivalence, this paper classifies all the irreducible unitary representations with non-zero Dirac cohomology for the following simple real exceptional Lie groups: EI=E6(6),EIV=E6(26),FI=F4(4),FII=F4(20){\rm EI}=E_{6(6)}, {\rm EIV}=E_{6(-26)}, {\rm FI}=F_{4(4)}, {\rm FII}=F_{4(-20)}. Along the way, we find an irreducible unitary representation of F4(4)F_{4(4)} whose Dirac index vanishes, while its Dirac cohomology is non-zero. This disproves a conjecture raised in 2015 asserting that there should be no cancellation between the even part and the odd part of the Dirac cohomology.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.06034,
  title  = {Dirac series for some real exceptional Lie groups},
  author = {Jian Ding and Chao-Ping Dong and Liang Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06034},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

28 pages, accepted by Journal of Algebra

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