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The Mathematical Work of David A. Vogan, Jr.

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Representations of Reductive Groups

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Over four decades David Vogan’s groundbreaking work in representation theory has changed the face of the subject. We give a brief summary here.

To David, with gratitude and respect

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    William M. McGovern

  2. Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA

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McGovern, W.M., Trapa, P.E. (2015). The Mathematical Work of David A. Vogan, Jr.. In: Nevins, M., Trapa, P. (eds) Representations of Reductive Groups. Progress in Mathematics, vol 312. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23443-4_1

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