A comprehensive treatment of new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Using Dirac operators as a unifying theme, the authors demonstrate how many of the important results in representation theory fit together when viewed from this perspective.

This monograph presents a comprehensive treatment of important new ideas on Dirac operators and Dirac cohomology. Dirac operators are widely used in physics, differential geometry, and group-theoretic settings (particularly, the geometric construction of discrete series representations). The related concept of Dirac cohomology, which is defined using Dirac operators, is a far-reaching generalization that connects index theory in differential geometry to representation theory. Using Dirac operators as a unifying theme, the authors demonstrate how some of the most important results in representation theory fit together when viewed from this perspective.

An excellent contribution to the mathematical literature of representation theory, this self-contained exposition offers a systematic examination and panoramic view of the subject. The material will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in representation theory, differential geometry, and physics.

Inhalt
Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Representations.- Clifford Algebras and Spinors.- Dirac Operators in the Algebraic Setting.- A Generalized Bott-Borel-Weil Theorem.- Cohomological Induction.- Properties of Cohomologically Induced Modules.- Discrete Series.- Dimensions of Spaces of Automorphic Forms.- Dirac Operators and Nilpotent Lie Algebra Cohomology.- Dirac Cohomology for Lie Superalgebras.