Welcome to Pralay Chatterjee's Homepage

I am a member of the faculty at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India

Research Interests:

Lie Groups, Algebraic Groups, Dynamical system associated to homogeneous spaces

Publication/Preprints:

(With Indranil Biswas ) On the exactness of Kostant-Kirillov form and the second cohomology of nilpotent orbits. Preprint

Surjectivity of power maps of real algebraic groups. Advances in Mathematics 226 (2011), 4639--4666 (pdf))

Automorphism invariant Cartan subgroups and power maps of disconnected groups. Mathematische Zeitschrift 269 (2011), 221--233 (pdf))

On the power maps, orders and exponentiality of p-adic algebraic groups. Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelle's Journal) 629 (2009), 201--220. (pdf))

(With Dave Witte Morris ) Divergent torus orbits in homogeneous spaces of Q-rank two. Israel Journal of Mathematics 152 (2006), 229--243. (pdf)

On the surjectivity of the power maps of semisimple algebraic groups. Mathematical Research Letters 10 (2003), no. 5-6, 625--633. (pdf)

On the surjectivity of the power maps of algebraic groups in characteristic zero. Mathematical Research Letters 9 (2002), no. 5-6, 741--756. (pdf)

On surjectivity of the power maps of solvable Lie groups. Journal of Algebra 248 (2002), no. 2, 669--687.(pdf)

Contact:

Address:
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
CIT Campus, Taramani
Chennai-600 113, INDIA
E-mail: pralay AT imsc DOT res DOT in
Phone: +91-44-2254 3305
Fax: +91-44-2254 1586