A Tribute to C. S. Seshadri: Perspectives in Geometry and Representation Theory

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxxii
 The early work of Seshadri  (S. Ramanan)....Pages 1-5
 Geometry of Moduli Spaces (The work of C.S.Seshadri)  (V. Balaji)....Pages 6-15
 Seshadri’s Contributions to Moduli and Geometric Invariant Theory  (Vikram B. Mehta)....Pages 16-19
 Seshadri’s work on moduli spaces - The case of singular curves  (D. S. Nagaraj)....Pages 20-27
 Parabolic Bundles  (Nitin Nitsure)....Pages 28-33
 Seshadri’s Work on Flag & Schubert Varieties  (V. Lakshmibai, C. Musili)....Pages 34-41
 Seshadri and the Chennai Mathematical Institute  (K. R. Nagarajan)....Pages 42-46
 C.S. Seshadri’s impact on education: A Computer Scientist’s Perspective  (Madhavan Mukund)....Pages 47-48
 CMI’s Undergraduate Programme and NBHM  (M. S. Raghunathan)....Pages 49-50
 Translates of Polynomials  (Shreeram S. Abhyankar, William J. Heinzer, Avinash Sathaye)....Pages 51-124
 Orbits of Certain Endomorphisms of Nilmanifolds and Hausdorff Dimension  (C. S. Aravinda, P. Sankaran)....Pages 125-132
 A Family of Quantum Stabilizer Codes Based on the Weyl Commutation Relations over a Finite Field  (V. Arvind, K. R. Parthasarathy)....Pages 133-153
 Principal bundle, parabolic bundle, and holomorphic connection  (Indranil Biswas)....Pages 154-179
 The cone of effective one—cycles of certain G—varieties  (Michel Brion)....Pages 180-198
 Representations of double affine lie algebras  (Vyjayanthi Chari, Thang Le)....Pages 199-219
 Poincaré series of line bundles on varieties  (Steven Dale Cutkosky)....Pages 220-240
 Triple Canonical Covers of Varieties of Minimal Degree  (Francisco Javier Gallego, Bangere P. Purnaprajna)....Pages 241-270
 Semistability and Semisimplicity in representations of low height in positive characteristic  (S. Ilangovan, V. B. Mehta, A. J. Parameswaran)....Pages 271-282
 The Development of Standard Monomial Theory-II  (V. Lakshmibai)....Pages 283-309
 Maximal Subbundles and Gromov-Witten Invariants  (H. Lange, P. E. Newstead)....Pages 310-322
 Bases for representations, LS-paths and Verma flags  (P. Littelmann)....Pages 323-345
 Invariant Tensor Fields and Orbit Varieties for Finite Algebraic Transformation Groups  (Mark Losik, Peter W. Michor, Vladimir L. Popov)....Pages 346-378
 Generators of a general ideal  (M. Pavaman Murthy)....Pages 379-384
 The Development of Standard Monomial Theory-I  (C. Musili)....Pages 385-420
 Measures on the Circle invariant under z → z2 and Z → z3  (M. G. Nadkarni)....Pages 421-427
 Affine Hecke Algebras, Cyclotomic Hecke algebras and Clifford Theory  (Arun Ram, Jacqui Ramagge)....Pages 428-466
 The Helgason Fourier Transform for Symmetric spaces  (Rudra P. Sarkar, Alladi Sitaram)....Pages 467-473
 On representations of special orthogonal groups over fields of positive characteristics  (S. Senthamarai Kannan, K. V. Subrahmanyam)....Pages 474-499
 Equivariant Analogue of Grothendieck’s Theorem for Vector Bundles on ℙ1  (Shrawan Kumar)....Pages 500-501
 Vector Bundles and Connections in Physics and Mathematics: Some Historical Remarks  (V. S. Varadarajan)....Pages 502-541