E8 Revisited
March 27th, 2007 by WaltThis article at the website for the Atlas of Lie Groups and Representations provides more details for last week’s highly touted announcement of the computation of the Kahzdan-Lusztig-Vogan polynomials for E8. It sounds like they were as surprised as anyone that the announcement made such a big media splash.
March 27th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
As I mention in my “Why We Care” post, Dr. Vogan’s slides are also very accessible, even starting at a lower level than Jeff writes in the article you link.
May 28th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
[...] John Armstrong has written an overview of the representation theory of real reductive groups, based on a series of lectures by Gregg Zuckerman. The focus is providing enough background to understand the significance of the Atlas of Lie Group’s highly touted announcement. I particularly recommend the first post as a whirlwind introduction to the theory: [...]