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In this paper D. Barbasch reviews some results concerning orbital integrals on Lie algebras, especially the Liouville measure \(\mu_{\mathcal O}\) on a nilpotent orbit \({\mathcal O}\). Let \(\pi\) be a Harish-Chandra module and \(\theta_\pi\) the local character of \(\pi\) near zero. Then the leading term of \(\theta_\pi\) is of the form \(\sum c_j\widehat\mu_{{\mathcal O}_j}\), where \({\mathcal O}_j\) are nilpotent orbits of dimension \(2d\). In order to characterize the multiplicities \(c_j\) of \({\mathcal O}_j\) he investigates the behaviour of the Liouville measure \(\mu_{\mathcal O}\) under real parabolic induction. He applies the results to classical complex groups and then, when \(\pi\) is a unipotent representation attached to the nilpotent orbit \({\mathcal O}\), he writes down the explicit formula such as \[ \theta_\pi(f_t)=t^{-d(\pi)}\widehat\mu_\pi(f) + \text{ higher order terms}, \] where \(f\in C_c^\infty({\mathcal U})\),\ \({\mathcal U}\) is an open set of the Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) containing zero, and \(f_t(X)=t^{-\dim(\mathfrak g)}f(t^{-1}X)\) \((X\in {\mathcal U}\), \(t>0)\). The multiplicities \(c_j\) can be identified with the multiplicities in the associated cycle of \(\pi\), and these are computable from the characteristic cycle of the \({\mathcal D}\)-module corresponding to \(\pi\). However, we have no general algorithms for computing the associated cycles or the characteristic cycles. Therefore, the real parabolic induction which yields the above result is really significant. He also treats the real case under an additional assumption. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0943.00049].











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