Steel Plate Shear Wall (SPSW) is an emerging seismic load-resistant system that, compared to other systems, enjoys the advantages of stable ductile behavior, fewer detailing requirements, rapid constructability, and economy. American seismic provisions decree that a SPSW should be designed as a moment frame with a web infill plate. Specifically, in case of buildings taller than 160 ft, it decre...

Vogan has conjectured that a family of cohomologically induced modules exhaust the unitary dual of U(p, q) for certain kinds of integral infinitesimal characters. In this expository note (which is substantially a transcript of a talk given at the 1997 Seattle conference on the representation theory of real and p-adic groups) we recall the definition of the relevant modules, describe an approach...

1. Iwasawa functions, p-adic measures, and distributions 1 1.1. Some preliminaries 1 1.2. Iwasawa functions and the Iwasawa algebra 3 1.3. Iwasawa functions and interpolation 4 1.4. p-adic distributions and p-adic measures 8 2. The p-adic L-functions of Dirichlet characters 10 2.1. Preliminaries 10 2.2. Iwasawa’s construction 12 3. The p-adic L-functions of modular forms 15 3.1. Preliminaries 1...