This talk is a review of aspects, old and new, of the connection between harmonic analysis on real reductive groups and the structure of certain $C^*$-algebras attached to them.
Topics will include the topology of the tempered dual, the Baum--Connes--Kasparov conjecture in K-theory, and the Mackey bijection between the tempered dual of a real reductive group and the unitary dual of its Cartan...
I will discuss recent works with Bram Mesland and Magnus Goffeng in which we have shown that in many cases, theta correspondence, both local and global, lends itself well to a C*-algebraic formulation.
The first lecture will present a general formalism for theorems in harmonic analysis, which applies not only to spherical varieties but also to other spaces of polynomial growth (such as finite-volume quotients of semisimple Lie groups). We will discuss the variation of discrete series, asymptotic cones (boundary degenerations), and how to build the $L^2$ and Harish-Chandra Schwartz spaces out...
When a Lie group $G$ acts transitively on a manifold $X$, an irreducible subrepresentation of the unitary representation $L^2(X)$ is called a discrete series representation of $X$. The discrete series plays an important role in the study of harmonic analysis for symmetric spaces. In this talk, we would like to give sufficient conditions for the existence of discrete series for general...
Spherical characters are distributions on homogeneous spaces that play an important role in the relative trace formula. Natural density problems regarding these distributions lead to some open problems in harmonic analysis. In a joint work with A. Aizenbud (Weizmann) and J. Bernstein (Tel-Aviv), we introduce some algebraic methods to tackle some of these density problems in the $p$-adic case.
The first lecture will present a general formalism for theorems in harmonic analysis, which applies not only to spherical varieties but also to other spaces of polynomial growth (such as finite-volume quotients of semisimple Lie groups). We will discuss the variation of discrete series, asymptotic cones (boundary degenerations), and how to build the $L^2$ and Harish-Chandra Schwartz spaces out...
In these two lectures I will give an overview of the relative Langlands duality conjectures, as they are formulated in my work with Yiannis Sakellaridis and Akshay Venkatesh. The rough idea is that multiplicity-free harmonic analysis problems (spherical varieties and their variants) come in pairs associated to Langlands dual groups, so that representation theoretic questions on one side are...
In the context of the relative Langlands program, the notion of relative cuspidality was introduced by Kato and Takano based on the support of relative matrix coefficients. In this talk, I will explain how theta correspondence can be used to demonstrate relative cuspidality of non-supercuspidal distinguished representations, based on a relative character identity.
This talk will be an update on the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations project. I will describe an algorithm for computing the unitary dual of a real reductive group, and discuss our computer calculations of $E_7$ and (partially completed) $E_8$. Then I will discuss recent progress on proving Arthur's conjectures about the unitary of Arthur packets for real reductive groups. This work is...
In these two lectures I will give an overview of the relative Langlands duality conjectures, as they are formulated in my work with Yiannis Sakellaridis and Akshay Venkatesh. The rough idea is that multiplicity-free harmonic analysis problems (spherical varieties and their variants) come in pairs associated to Langlands dual groups, so that representation theoretic questions on one side are...
The class of maximally hypoelliptic differential operators is a large class of differential operators which contains elliptic operators as well as Hörmander’s sum of squares. I will present our work where we define a principal symbol generalising the classical principal symbol for elliptic operators which should be thought of as the analogue of the principal symbol in sub-Riemannian geometry....
