Dirac cohomology and unipotent representations of complex groups
This paper studies unitary representations with Dirac cohomology for complex groups, in particular relations to unipotent representations
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This paper studies unitary representations with Dirac cohomology for complex groups, in particular relations to unipotent representations
Dirac cohomology is a new tool to study unitary and admissible representations of semisimple Lie groups. It was introduced by Vogan and further studied by Kostant and ourselves \cite{V2}, \cite{HP1}, \cite{Kdircoh}. The aim of this paper is to study the Dirac cohomology for the Kostant cubic Dirac operator and its relation to Lie algebra cohomology. We show that the Dirac cohomology coincides with the corresponding nilpotent Lie algebra cohomology in many cases, while in general it has better algebraic behavior and it is more accessible for calculation.
We give an easy proof of the Bernstein-Lunts equivalence of ordinary and equivariant derived categories of Harish-Chandra modules. This proof requires no boundedness assumptions. In the appendix we collect some needed, but not completely standard facts from homological algebra.
We review the Beilinson-Ginzburg construction of equivariant derived categories of Harish-Chandra modules, and introduce analogues of Zuckerman functors in this setting. They are given by an explicit formula, which works equally well in the case of modules with a given infinitesimal character, which is important if one wants to apply Beilinson-Bernstein localization. We also show how to recover the usual Zuckerman functors from the equivariant ones by passing to cohomology.