D-Modules, Perverse Sheaves, and Representation Theory [Hardcover]

D-modules continues to be an active area of stimulating research in such mathematical areas as algebra, analysis, differential equations, and representation theory.

Key to D-modules, Perverse Sheaves, and Representation Theory is the authors' essential algebraic-analytic approach to the theory, which connects D-modules to representation theory and other areas of mathematics. Significant concepts and topics that have emerged over the last few decades are presented, including a treatment of the theory of holonomic D-modules, perverse sheaves, the all-important Riemann-Hilbert correspondence, Hodge modules, and the solution to the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture using D-module theory.

To further aid the reader, and to make the work as self-contained as possible, appendices are provided as background for the theory of derived categories and algebraic varieties. The book is intended to serve graduate students in a classroom setting and as self-study for researchers in algebraic geometry, and representation theory.

D-Modules and Perverse Sheaves.- Preliminary Notions.- Coherent D-Modules.- Holonomic D-Modules.- Analytic D-Modules and the de Rham Functor.- Theory of Meromorphic Connections.- Regular Holonomic D-Modules.- RiemannHilbert Correspondence.- Perverse Sheaves.- Representation Theory.- Algebraic Groups and Lie Algebras.- Conjugacy Classes of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- Representations of Lie Algebras and D-Modules.- Character Formula of HighestWeight Modules.- Hecke Algebras and Hodge Modules.

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A self-contained introduction to D-modules, with the aim of showing how they were used to solve the Kazhdan-Lusztig conjecture. & present book can be used as a good reference on D-modules and on advanced representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras, but espels*