Harish-Chandra character formula

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The Harish-Chandra character formula is a fundamental result in representation theory that gives an explicit expression for the characters of irreducible admissible representations of real reductive Lie groups.

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instanceOf mathematical theorem
result in representation theory
appearsIn Harish-Chandra character formula self-linksurface differs
surface form: Harish-Chandra’s collected papers on harmonic analysis
appliesTo irreducible admissible representations
real reductive Lie groups
assumes admissibility of representation
reductivity of the Lie group
codomain distributions on the group
concerns behavior of characters on regular semisimple set
trace of representation operators
context harmonic analysis on real reductive groups
unitary representation theory of semisimple Lie groups
describes characters of irreducible admissible representations
domain Lie algebra of a real reductive Lie group
field Lie theory
harmonic analysis
representation theory
formalism distribution characters on real reductive Lie groups
generalizes Weyl character formula
gives explicit expression for characters
hasComponent denominator involving roots
numerator involving highest weight data
sum over Weyl group elements
historicalPeriod 20th century mathematics
influenced modern representation theory of real groups
theory of automorphic representations
involves conjugacy classes
distribution characters
orbital integrals
regular semisimple elements
namedAfter Harish-Chandra
provedBy Harish-Chandra
relatedTo Langlands classification
Plancherel theorem for real reductive groups
surface form: Plancherel formula for real reductive groups

discrete series representations
tempered representations
typeOf character formula
usedFor classification of irreducible admissible representations
computation of characters
harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups
uses Cartan subalgebras
surface form: Cartan subalgebra

Harish-Chandra isomorphism
Harish-Chandra regularity theorem
Weyl group
root system

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Harish-Chandra notableWork Harish-Chandra character formula
Weyl character formula relatedTo Harish-Chandra character formula
Cartan subalgebras usedFor Harish-Chandra character formula
this entity surface form: Harish-Chandra theory of representations
Harish notableFor Harish-Chandra character formula
subject surface form: Harish-Chandra
Harish-Chandra character formula appearsIn Harish-Chandra character formula self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Harish-Chandra’s collected papers on harmonic analysis
Plancherel theorem for real reductive groups involves Harish-Chandra character formula
this entity surface form: Harish-Chandra characters