Speaker
Nigel Higson
(Penn State University)
Description
The Connes-Kasparov isomorphism from the perspective of representation theory
The Mackey deformation family and continuity of the rescaled imaginary part of the infinitesimal character. A filtration of the deformation continuous field by ideals. Rescaling automorphisms, embedding morphisms, and computation of the subquotient continuous fields. Reformulation of the Connes-Kasparov isomorphism. Vogan’s theorem.