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History of Mathematics

Volume 21

Essays in the History of Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups


Armand Borel

American Mathematical Society London Mathematical Society

Contents
Introduction Terminology for Classical Groups and Notation Photo Credits Chapter I. Overview 1. Lie's theory 2. Lie algebras 3. Globalizations References for Chapter I Chapter II. Pull Reducibility and Invariants for SL2(C) 1. Full reducibility, 1890-96 2. Averaging. The invariant theorem 3. Algebraic proofs of full reducibility 4. Appendix: More on some proofs of full reducibility References for Chapter II Chapter III. Hermann Weyl and Lie Groups 1. First contacts with Lie groups 2. Representations of semisimple Lie groups and Lie algebras 3. Impact on E. Cartan 4. The Peter-Weyl theorem. Harmonic analysis 5. Group theory and quantum mechanics 6. Representations and invariants of classical groups 7. Two later developments Notes References for Chapter III Chapter IV. Elie Cartan, Symmetric Spaces and Lie Groups A. Building Up the Theory 1. The spaces . Local theory 2. Spaces and semisimple groups. Global theory 3. An exposition of Lie group theory from the global point of view B. Further Developments 4. Complete orthogonal systems on homogeneous spaces of compact Lie groups ix xi xiii 1 1 5 6 8 9 9 11 16 18 26 29 29 31 35 37 38 40 44 46 54 59 60 60 64 79 80 80

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5. Differential forms and algebraic topology 6. Bounded symmetric domains References for Chapter IV Chapter V. Linear Algebraic Groups in the 19th Century 1. S. Lie, E. Study, and projective representations 2. E. Study, Gordan series and linear representations of SL3 3. Emile Picard 4. Ludwig Maurer 5. Elie Cartan 6. Karl Carda References for Chapter V Chapter VI. Linear Algebraic Groups in the 20th Century 1. Linear algebraic groups in characteristic zero. Replicas 2. Groups over algebraically closed ground fields I 3. Groups over an algebraically closed ground field II 4. Rationality properties 5. Algebraic groups and geometry. Tits systems and Tits buildings 6. Abstract automorphisms 7. Merger References for Chapter VI Chapter VII. The Work of Chevalley in Lie Groups and Algebraic Groups 1. Lie groups, 1941-1946 2. Linear algebraic groups, 1943-1951 3. Lie groups, 1948-1955 4. Linear algebraic groups, 1954 5. Algebraic groups, 1955-1961 References for Chapter VII Chapter VIII. Algebraic Groups and Galois Theory in trie-Work of Ellis R. Kolchin 1. The Picard-Vessiot theory 2. Linear algebraic groups ' 3. Generalization of the Picard-Vessiot theory 4. Galois theory of strongly normal extensions 5. Foundational work on algebraic sets and groups References for Chapter VIII Name Index Subject Index

84 88 90 93 93 97 99 102 114 115 117 119 119 119 124 126 131 134 142 144 147 147 150 152 155 156 162 165 165 169 170 173 176 179 181 183

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