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Group representations, ergodic theory, and mathematical physics : a tribute to George W. Mackey : AMS special session honoring the memory of George W. Mackey, January 7-8, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana / [electronic resource] Robert S. Doran, Calvin C. Moore, Robert J. Zimmer, editors. - Providence, R.I. : American Mathematical Society, c2008. - 1 online resource (ix, 446 p. : ill.) - Contemporary mathematics, v. 449 0271-4132 (print); 1098-3627 (online); . - Contemporary mathematics (American Mathematical Society) ; v. 449. .

Includes bibliographical references.

George Mackey 1916-2006 / Decay to zero of matrix coefficients at adjoint infinity / Induced representations, intertwining operators and transfer / MASA's and certain type I closed faces of $C^*$-algebras / A duality approach to representations of Baumslag-Solitar groups / The Mackey machine for crossed products: inducing primitive ideals / Classifying the unclassifiables / The Mackey analogy and $K$-theory / Some recent applications of induced representations / Groupoid methods in wavelet analysis / Quantum theory and relativity / Thoughts about George Mackey and his imprimitivity theorem / Virtual groups 45 years later / Spherical characters: the supercuspidal case / Representation theory, Radon transform and the heat equation on a Riemannian symmetric space / Projective representations and the Mackey obstruction -- a survey / Virtual groups for group representations / A global view of equivariant vector bundles and Dirac operators on some compact homogeneous spaces / George Mackey and his work on representation theory and foundations of physics / Robert S. Doran and Arlan Ramsay -- Scot Adams -- James Arthur -- Lawrence G. Brown -- Dorin Ervin Dutkay and Palle E. T. Jorgensen -- Siegfried Echterhoff and Dana P. Williams -- Edward G. Effros -- Nigel Higson -- Roger E. Howe -- Marius Ionescu and Paul S. Muhly -- Arthur Jaffe -- A. A. Kirillov -- Calvin C. Moore -- Fiona Murnaghan -- Gestur �Olafsson and Henrik Schlichtkrull -- Judith A. Packer -- Arlan Ramsay -- Marc A. Rieffel -- V. S. Varadarajan -- http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08704 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08705 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08706 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08707 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08708 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08709 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08710 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08711 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08712 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08713 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08714 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08715 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08716 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08717 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08718 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08719 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08720 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08721 http://www.ams.org/conm/449/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/conm/449/08722

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Electronic reproduction.
Providence, Rhode Island :
American Mathematical Society.
2012


Mode of access : World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780821881286 (online)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Representations of groups--Congresses.
Ergodic theory--Congresses.
Mathematical physics--Congresses.

LC Class. No.: QA176 / .G76 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 512/.22