Advances in Geometry

This book is an outgrowth of the activities of the Center for Geometry and Mathematical Physics (CGMP) at Penn State from 1996 to 1998. The Center was created in the Mathematics Department at Penn State in the fall of 1996 for the purpose of promoting and

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Series Editors Hyman Bass Joseph Oesterle Alan Weinstein

Advances in Geometry Jean-Luc Brylinski Ranee Brylinski Victor Nistor Boris Tsygan Ping Xu Editors

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

Jean-Luc Brylinski Department of Mathematics Penn State University University Park, PA 16802

Ranee Brylinski Department of Mathematics Penn State University University Park, PA 16802

Victor Nistor Department of Mathematics Penn State University University Park, PA 16802

Boris Tsygan Department of Mathematics Penn State University University Park, PA 16802

PingXu Department of Mathematics Penn State University University Park, PA 16802 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-PubUcation Data Advances in geometry / Jean-Luc Brylinski ... [et aL]. p. cm. -- (Progress in mathematics ; 172) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-4612-7274-8 ISBN 978-1-4612-1770-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4612-1770-1

1. Geometry. 1. Brylinski, J.-L. (Jean-Luc) Progress in mathematics (Boston, Mass.) ; 172. QA446.A28 1998 516--dc21

II. Series: 98-43464 CIP

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CONTENTS

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. vii On Karabegov's Quantizations of Semisimple Coadjoint Orbits Alexander Astashkevich ... ......................................... 1 Exotic Differential Operators on Complex Minimal Nilpotent Orbits Alexander Astashkevich and Ranee Brylinski ..... ................. 19 The Geometry Surrounding the Arnold-Liouville Theorem Augustin Banyaga ................................................ 53 Symmetric Spaces and Star Representations Pierre Bieliavsky. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 71 Hyperplane Arrangements, Springer Re