The space of Surface group representations.
In this survey article we describe how the recent work in quantization in multi-variable complex geometry (domains of holomorphy, symmetric domains, tube domains, etc.) leads to interesting results and problems in C*-algebras which can be viewed as examples of the "non-commutative geometry" in the sense of A. Connes. At the same time, one obtains new functional calculi (of pseudodifferential type) with possible applications to partial differential equations and group representations.
We prove that every Kähler solvmanifold has a finite covering whose holomorphic reduction is a principal bundle. An example is given that illustrates the necessity, in general, of passing to a proper covering. We also answer a stronger version of a question posed by Akhiezer for homogeneous spaces of nonsolvable algebraic groups in the case where the isotropy has the property that its intersection with the radical is Zariski dense in the radical.