Veeravalli S. Varadarajan

VS Varadarajan ( Veeravalli Varadarajan Seshadri; * 1937 in Bangalore ) is an Indian- American mathematician.

Life

Varadarajan studied at the University of Madras (then Presidential College) with a bachelor 's degree in 1957 and in 1959 at the Indian Statistical Institute in CR Rao PhD ( Convergence of Stochastic Processes). After that, he was at the University of Washington in Seattle and 1968 at the Institute for Advanced Study, before he went to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA ), where he became a professor.

Initially he worked on probability theory and statistics, but changed after an encounter with Harish - Chandra 1960, whose close friend and pupil he was, to the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras and their representations with applications in quantum mechanics. In addition, he also wrote some well-known textbooks. Later he dealt among other things with meromorphic differential equations (along with Donald Babbitt ) and supersymmetry, super Lie groups and homogeneous spaces supersymmetric.

In 1998 he was awarded the Lars Onsager - Medal of the University of Trondheim. In 1968/69 he was a Sloan Fellow and he became an honorary doctorate from the University of Geneva in 1992. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He was the editor of the Collected Essays of Harish - Chandra (1984).

Writings

• With K.R. Parthasarathy, R. Rangarao: Representations of Complex Semi Simple Lie Groups and Lie algebras, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 85, 1967, pp. 383-429
• With Thomas J. Enright: On an infinitesimal Characterization of the Discrete Series, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 102, 1975, p 1-15
• With PC Trombi Spherical transforms of semisimple Lie groups, Annals of Mathematics, Volume 94, 1971, p 246-303
• Geometry of Quantum Theory, 2 volumes, New York: Van Nostrand, 1968, 1970, 2nd edition, 1985, reprint Springer Verlag 2006
• Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Their Representations, Springer Verlag, 1984 ( first Prentice-Hall 1974)
• An introduction to harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups, Cambridge University Press 1999
• Selected Works of VS Varadarajan, American Mathematical Society 1999
• Published by Robert S. Doran: The mathematical legacy of Harish - Chandra: A celebration of representation theory and harmonic analysis, Proc. Symp Pure Math, American Mathematical Society 2000
• Supersymmetry for Mathematicians, American Mathematical Society 2004
• Algebra in ancient and modern times, American Mathematical Society 1998
• Harmonic Analysis on Real Reductive Groups, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 576, Springer Verlag 1977
• Reflections on Quanta, Symmetries and Super Symmetries, Springer Verlag 2011
• With Donald Babbitt: Local moduli for meromorphic differential equations, astérisque, Volume 169/170, 1989
• With Donald Babbitt: Deformation of nilpotent matrices over rings and reduction of analytic families of meromorphic differential equations, Memoirs AMS, 1985
• Ramesh Gangolli: Harmonic analysis of spherical functions on real reductive groups, results of mathematics and its applications, Springer Verlag 1988