CURRICULUM VITAE

Rajagopalan PARTHASARATHY
: DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow (till 2015)
: (Formerly Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
School of Mathematics
Mumbai
Residence : B-75 Nana Nani Homes, Phase III
Dhaliyur,
Coimbatore 641109, TN
Telephone : (Mobile) 91 9500233213
E-mail : [email protected]
: [email protected]
Home Page : http://www.math.tifr.res.in/˜ sarathy
IAS REPOSITORY
EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
M.Sc 1967 Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Ph.d 1973 Bombay Univ. {Thesis : Representations of Semisimple
Lie Groups : Dirac operator and Discrete Series,
Thesis advisor: Professor M.S. Narasimhan }
CONFERENCE LINK CONFERENCE IMAGES LINK
POSITIONS
DAE Raja Ramanna Fellow, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore
Senior Professor(I), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
Moore Instructor, M.I.T, Boston (1971-72)
Visiting Member, I.A.S, Princeton (1972-73, 86-87)
Visiting Professor : University of California, Los Angeles(1976-77),
San Diego (77-78), University of Utah, Salt Lake City (1982-83)
JSPS Exchange Visitor, Mathematical Institute of
Tohoku University, Sendai (Summer 87)
Visiting Member, M.S.R.I, Berkeley (Fall 87)
Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik, Bonn,(September 1997)
Université de Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, (Two weeks in October 1997)
Exchange Visitor, Indo-French Center for the Promotion of
Science, Université des Sciences et Technologie de
Lille, France, (September 1994)
CNRS Directeur de Recherche, Université des Sciences
et Technologie de Lille, France, (October,November,December 1994)
Visiting Professor, Université des Sciences et Technologie de
Lille,(April,May,June 1997 and March,April,May 98)
LAMATH, Université de Valenciennes
(March,April,May,June 1999 - Poste PAST)
(April,May,June,July 2000 - Poste PAST)
(March,April,May,June 2001 - Poste PAST)
(May 2003 - Visiting Professor)
(June 2004- Visiting Professor)
(April,May 2005- Visiting Professor)
(June, 2006 - Visiting Professor)
(June, 2009 - Visiting Professor)
Ramanujan Institute, University of Madras, Chennai,(January 2002)
Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore,(August,2002)
ICTP, Trieste, Italy, (1.Invited Speaker, Conference in honour of M.S. Narasimhan
December 1-4, 2002, 2.Invited Speaker, Workshop in Representation
Theory, June,1993)
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai,(September 2002,November ‘03, Aug-Nov ‘04)
 Here is a link to lectures during the latter visit to IMSc. Most
of this course was repeated in TIFR during August-October,2006.
Institue of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore,
Workshop in Representation Theory, August 2-14,2002
Visiting Professor, Université Henri Poincare Nancy 1,(June 2003)
Visiting Professor, Université de Paris,10,(June 2005,May,June2007)
Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany, April,May 2006
Visiting Professor, M.I.T,Boston,Ohio State University,University of
Georgia, Emory University,Georgia, CUNY, New York (April 2007)
AWARDS AND HONOURS
SHANTI SWARUP BHATNAGAR Award of the Council of Scientific
and Industrial Research (India),(1985).
DOCTEUR HONORIS CAUSA, Université de Valenciennes
et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, 2009.
Selected Invited Addresses:
International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw (1983)
Harish-Chandra Memorium, Harish-Chandra Research Institute,
Allahabad, (1993)
ICTP, Trieste, Italy, (1.Invited Speaker, Conference in honour of M.S. Narasimhan,
December 1-4, 2002, 2.Invited Speaker, Workshop in Representation
Theory, June,1993)
National University of Singapore, Representation
Theory Workshop,(August,2002)
December 15-18,2008, ‘Representations of Lie Groups and Applications’
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences, Indian National Science Academy,
National Academy of Sciences (India)
EDITORSHIP
Served as the Editor, Proceedings of the Indian Academy of
Sciences, (Mathematical Sciences),(1991-93).
 THESES DIRECTED
S. KUMARESAN : On the canonical k -types in the
irreducible unitary g -modules with
nonzero relative cohomology
VIJAYANTHI CHARI : Some topics in infinite
dimensional Lie algebras
Cédric Rousseau : (Codirecteur de la These, Université de
Valenciennes, Laboratoire des Mathematiques
(2006, juin)
Déformations d’actions de groupes et
de certains réseaux résolubles
Mémoire de DEA Directed :
Renaud CADART : La Représentation de Weil

Recent lectures given outside TIFR:-

”The BGG Theorem on Composition Series for Verma Modules”,
Chennai Mathematical Institute, September 20, 2007

”The K-Group of Substitutional Dynamical Systems”

Hyderabad Central University, October 25, 2007

A course of lectures ”A Brief Survey of Representations of Compact

Lie Groups” was given at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Ettimadai,
Coimbatore. This was attended by about 35 M.Phil students and teachers,
from various city colleges in and around Coimbatore. The students needed
to get credit in the subject Lie Groups as part of their curriculum.
The 8-hour course was conducted during January 29-31,2008.
”Colouring quasi-crystals with prescribed symmetries and frequencies”,
University of Victoria,B.C, Canada, May 13, 2009.
”K-group of substitutional systems”, University of Washington,
Seattle,WA, U.S.A, May 19,2009.
 PUBLICATIONS

[1] Dirac Operator and Discrete Series, Annals of Mathematics vol 96 (1972)
PDF

[2] A note on the vanishing of certain L2 –cohomologies,Journal of the Math.

Soc. Japan 23 (1971) PDF

[3] A geometric meaning of the multiplicity of integrable discrete classes in

L2 (G/Γ), (with R. Hotta) Osaka J. Math. 10 (1973) PDF

[4] Multiplicity formulas for discrete series, (with R. Hotta), Inv. Math. 26,
(1974) PDF

[5] An algebraic construction of a class of representations of a semisimple Lie

Algebra,Math. Ann. 226, (1977) PDF

[6] A generalization of the Enright-Varadarajan modules, Compositio Math.

36 (1978) PDF

[7] Criteria for the unitarizability of some highest weight modules, Proc. Ind.
Acad. Sci. 89 (1980) PDF

[8] The transfer of invariant pairings to lattices, (with T. Enright) Pac. Jour-
nal of Math. 95 (1981) PDF

[9] Holomorphic forms in Γ\G/K and Chern classes, Topology 21 (1982)

PDF

[10] A proof of a conjecture of Kashiwara and Vergne, (with T. Enright), “Non-

commutative Harmonic Analysis and Lie Groups”, Lecture Notes in
Mathematics 880 Springer-Verlag, (1981) PDF

[11] Spin modules for the orthogonal affine Lie algebras (unpublished)

[12] On a reciprocity between the discrete part of some induced representations

(unpublished)

[13] Unitary derived functor modules with small specrum (with T. Enright, N.
Wallach and J. A. Wolf) Acta. Math. 154 (1985) PDF
[14] Unitary modules with non vanishing relative Lie algebra cohomology, Pro-
ceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw (1983)
[15] t-structures in the derived category of representations of a quiver, C. R.
Acad. Sc. Paris, t. 304, Serie I, (1987) also Proc. Indian Acad. Sci.
98 (1988) PDF PDF
[16] On the quantization of a coherent family of representations at roots of
unity,J. Math. Soc. of Jap. 48 (1996) PDF
[17] Quantum Analogues of a Coherent Family of Modules at Roots of Unity :
A2 , B2 , pp. 87-115 in: S.D. Adhikari (ed.), Current Trends in Mathe-
matics and Physics - A Tribute to Harish-Chandra, Narosa, New Delhi,
1995 PDF
[18] Quantum Analogues of a Coherent Family of Modules at Roots of Unity:
A3 , Acta Applicandae Mathematicae 44 (1996) PDF
[19] Colouring Quasi-Crystals with prescribed symmetries and frequencies, (with
A. El Kacimi),Discrete Comput. Geom. 22 (1999),459-475. PDF
[20] Trace Splittings in C ∗ -algebras of Tiling Systems via Colourings (with
A. El Kacimi), Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 131
(2003),1191-1204. Proc. AMS, vol.131 PDF PostScript
[21] Quantum Analogues of a Coherent Family of Modules at Roots of one:G2 ,
in: V.B. Mehta (Ed.), Algebraic Groups and Homogeneous Spaces, Narosa
Publ. House, 2007, pp.475-480 PDF
[22] Quantum Analogues of discrete series at roots of one, Proceedings of an
International Conference on ”Harmonic Analysis and Quantum Groups”,
January 3-8,2005, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi.
PDF
[23] A Product for Harmonic Spinors on reductive homogeneous spaces, (with
S. Mehdi), Journal of Lie Theory Vol.18(2008) PDF
[24] Skew-product for group valued edge labellings of Bratteli diagrams, (with
A. El Kacimi),Publ. Mat. Vol.53, (2009), 329-354. PDF
[25] The K-group of substitutional systems, (with A. El Kacimi) Publ. Mat.
Vol.54, (2010), 3-23. PDF PDF
 [26] Representation theoretic harmonic spinors, (with Salah Mehdi), Preprint,
To appear in the Platinum Jubilee Special Issue of Indian Journal of
Pure and Applied Mathematics. PDF

[27] Cubic Dirac cohomology for generalized Enright-Varadarajan modules, (with

Salah Mehdi), Preprint PDF

[28] Classification of Discrete Series by Minimal K type, Electronic Journal of

Representation Theory PDF

Brief Abstract and Highlights of above Publications.

Here is a compilation of selected articles in the literature related to the
above publications. (Note: The google search produced some extraneous
results too.)
Seminaire-Bourbaki-vol.1970-71.pdf
Seminaire-Bourbaki-Duflo.pdf
Dirac Operators Rep Theory-Book.html
Dirac-Op-Chap-3.pdf
Dirac Partha String Th.pdf
Hotta Parthasa dimension automor.pdf
Mathematics into the 21st Century: A Century of Lie Theory:
Roger HoweISBN:08218016780
Representation Theory and Automorphic Forms: Instructional
Conference, By T. N. Bailey , Anthony W. KnappISBN:0821806092
it seems that
it seems that page 3
Google Search 1.htm
Google Search 2.html
Google Search 4.htm
Google Search 5.htm
Abstract of a talk by David Vogan on selected publications.
Speaker: Prof. D.A. Vogan
Title: Dirac operators and unitary representations: some of the work of Pro-
fessor Parthasarathy
Abstract: The representation theory of a compact Lie group K is well un-
derstood by classical work of Cartan and Weyl. If T is a maximal torus
in K, then a representation of K is may be regarded as a sum of charac-
ters of T. The homogeneous space K/T is a projective algebraic variety, and
(thanks to Borel, Weil, and Bott) representations of K can be realized in
sheaf cohomology of K/T with coefficients in algebraic line bundles.
Suppose G is a semisimple Lie group. Inside G there is a maximal com-
pact subgroup K, and the homogeneous space G/K is a Riemannian sym-
metric space. Harish-Chandra showed in the 1950s and 1960s that infinite-
dimensional representations of G can be thought of as sums of finite-dimensional
representations of K, and used this point of view to establish many funda-
mental properties of harmonic analysis on G. But his work did not show
exactly which sums of K representations could be extended to G representa-
tions, and it provided few direct clues about how to get detailed information
about G representations from our knowledge of K.
The work of Parthasarathy changed that. He provided many of the tools
that allow one to relate representations of G and of K almost as closely as
one relates representations of K and of T in the classical theory. One of the
first and most spectacular examples was his introduction of a Dirac operator
on G/K. This operator plays the role of the del-bar operator (more precisely,
of del-bar plus its adjoint) on K/T. First of all this allowed him to realize dis-
crete series representations of G as solutions of the Dirac operator on G/K, in
analogy with the Borel-Weil-Bott realization of finite-dimensional representa-
tions. Just as the Bott-Borel-Weil theorem is the beginning of a still-growing
body of understanding of compact groups, so Parthasarathy’s Dirac operator
has led over the past thirty-five years to some of the deepest results on uni-
tary representations of G. Typical examples are the work of Parthasarathy’s
student Kumaresan describing unitary representations that can contribute
to the cohomology of locally symmetric spaces, and Parthasarathy’s charac-
terization of unitary holomorphic representations.