A fixed point formula and Harish-Chandra's character formula

dc.contributor.authorHochs, P.
dc.contributor.authorWang, H.
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe main result in this paper is a fixed point formula for equivariant indices of elliptic differential operators, for proper actions by connected semisimple Lie groups on possibly noncompact manifolds, with compact quotients. For compact groups and manifolds, this reduces to the Atiyah-Segal-Singer fixed point formula. Other special cases include an index theorem by Connes and Moscovici for homogeneous spaces, and an earlier index theorem by the second author, both in cases where the group acting is connected and semisimple. As an application of this fixed point formula, we give a new proof of Harish-Chandra's character formula for discrete series representations.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityPeter Hochs and Hang Wang
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the London Mathematical Society, 2018; 116(1):1-32
dc.identifier.doi10.1112/plms.12066
dc.identifier.issn0024-6115
dc.identifier.issn1460-244X
dc.identifier.orcidHochs, P. [0000-0001-9232-2936]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/111025
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.granthttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DE160100525
dc.rights© 2017 London Mathematical Society
dc.source.urihttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1112/plms.12066/full
dc.subject58J20 (primary); 19K56; 46L80; 22E46 (secondary
dc.titleA fixed point formula and Harish-Chandra's character formula
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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