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The Mackey obstruction and the coadjoint orbits
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Abstract:

This paper studies the Mackey obstruction representation theory at the coadjoint orbit level. It shows how to get rid of such obstructions and to get orbits of the "little groups". Such little group data is essential for inductive construction of coadjoint orbits of general Lie groups.
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  • © Copyright 1994 American Mathematical Society
  • Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 346 (1994), 693-705
  • MSC: Primary 22E60; Secondary 22E25, 58F06
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1994-1276935-9
  • MathSciNet review: 1276935