Algebraic Groups and Lie Groups : A Volume of Papers in Honour of the Late R. W. Richardson (Paperback)

1. Class functions, conjugacy classes and commutators in semisimple Lie theory A. Borel; 2. Curves and divisors in spherical varieties M. Brion; 3. The phylon group and statistics A. Carey, P. Jupp and M. K. Murray; 4. The span of the tangent cones of a Schubert variety J. Carrell; 5. Canonical bases, reduced words and Lusztig's piecewise-linear function R. Carter; 6. Geometric rationality of Satake compactifications W. A. Casselman; 7. Graded and non-graded Kazhdan-Lusztig theories E. Cline, B. Parshall and L. Scott; 8. Quantum Schubert cells and representations at roots of 1 C. de Concini and C. Procesi; 9. Purity and equivariant weight polynomials A. Dimca and G. Lehrer; 10. The restriction of the regular module for a quantum group S. Donkin; 11. On coefficients in Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials M. Dyer; 12. Spectral estimates for positive Rocklands operators A. F. M. Ter Elst and D. W. Robinson; 13. Factorization of certain exponentials in Lie groups C. K. Fan and G. Lusztig; 14. Symmetry breaking for equivariant maps M. Field; 15. Low dimensional representations of reductive groups J. C. Jantzen; 16. Grosses cellules pour les varietes spheriques D. Luna; 17. Total positivity and canonical bases G. Lusztig; 18. On the number of orbits of a parabolic subgroup on its unipotent radical V. Popov and G. Rohrle; 19. On a homomorphism of Harish-Chandra G. W. Schwarz; 20. Two notes on a finiteness problem in the representation theory of finite groups P. Slodowy; 21. A description of B-orbits on symmetric varieties T. A. Springer; 22. Nagata's example R. Steinberg.