{"id":137,"date":"2005-01-19T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T20:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=137"},"modified":"2005-01-19T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T20:21:47","slug":"not-on-the-arxiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Not on the ArXiv"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most new preprints in mathematics and physics these days are posted on the <A href=\"http:\/\/www.arxiv.org\">arXiv<\/A>, but every so often I run into interesting new things worth reading that haven&#8217;t appeared there for one reason or another.  Here are some recent examples:<\/p>\n<p>Some <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/~shlomo\/docs\/lie_algebras.pdf\">lecture notes on Lie algebras<\/A> by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.harvard.edu\/people\/SternbergShlomo.html\">Shlomo Sternberg<\/A>.  Lots of topics covered I haven&#8217;t seen anywhere else, especially the material on the relation to Clifford algebras and the Kostant version of the Dirac operator.<\/p>\n<p>Lecture notes by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk\/~teleman\/\">Constantin Teleman<\/A> about his recent work on topological field theories and the Gromov-Witten theory of BG, the classifying space of a group.  These are notes from talks given at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk\/~teleman\/greg\/\">Gregynog<\/A>, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk\/~teleman\/goett\/\">Goettingen<\/A>,  and <A href=\"http:\/\/www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk\/~teleman\/miami\/\">Miami<\/A>.  I confess that, like a lot of Teleman&#8217;s work, I have trouble figuring out exactly what he is up to, but it looks quite interesting.  I wish he and Dan Freed and Mike Hopkins would get around to finishing their paper on &#8220;K-theory, Loop Groups, and Dirac Families&#8221; that Teleman has been advertising as &#8220;coming soon&#8221; for quite a while&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~dav\/\">David Vogan<\/A> has an interesting draft of a <A href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~dav\/kirillov.pdf\">review<\/A> of A. A. Kirillov&#8217;s book on the orbit method in representation theory.  This is the most fully developed version of what is sometimes known as &#8220;geometric quantization&#8221;.  Vogan also has some <A href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~dav\/venice.pdf\">notes<\/A> from his lectures this past year on &#8220;Unitary representations and complex analysis&#8221; which include material on the Borel-Weil theorem and its generalizations.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/~nikita\">Nikita Nekrasov<\/A> has some <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/~nikita\/IMAGES\/barcelona.ps\">Lectures on Nonperturbative Aspects of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories<\/A> and a written version of his <A href=\"http:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/~nikita\/IMAGES\/cocoyoc.ps\">2004 Hermann Weyl Prize lecture<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.toronto.edu\/mein\/\">Eckhard Meinrenken<\/A> has a a nice <A href=\"http:\/\/www.math.toronto.edu\/mein\/research\/enc.ps\">expository article on the de Rham model for equivariant cohomology<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most new preprints in mathematics and physics these days are posted on the arXiv, but every so often I run into interesting new things worth reading that haven&#8217;t appeared there for one reason or another. 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