A New Proof of Harish-Chandra’s Integral Formula
A New Proof of Harish-Chandra’s Integral Formula
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DOI:
10.1007/s00220-018-3259-9
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发表时间:
2017-12
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2.4
通讯作者:
Colin S. McSwiggen
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作者:
Colin S. McSwiggen
We present a new proof of Harish-Chandra’s formula (Harish-Chandra in Am J Math 79:87–120, 1957) Π ( h 1 ) Π ( h 2 ) ∫ G e ⟨ Ad g h 1 , h 2 ⟩ d g = [ [ Π , Π ] ] | W | ∑ w ∈ W ϵ ( w ) e ⟨ w ( h 1 ) , h 2 ⟩ , whereGis a compact, connected, semisimple Lie group,dgis normalized Haar measure,h1andh2lie in a Cartan subalgebra of the complexified Lie algebra,is the discriminant,is the Killing form,is an inner product that extends the Killing form to polynomials,Wis a Weyl group, andis the sign of. The proof in this paper follows from a relationship between heat flow on a semisimple Lie algebra and heat flow on a Cartan subalgebra, extending methods developed by Itzykson and Zuber (J Math Phys 21:411–421, 1980) for the case of an integral over the unitary groupU(N). The heat-flow proof allows a systematic approach to studying the asymptotics of orbital integrals over a wide class of groups.