On the Arthur-Barbasch-Vogan conjecture

In this lecture, I will discuss the resolution of the Arthur-Barbasch-Vogan conjecture on the unitarity of special unipotent representations for any real form of a connected reductive complex Lie group, with contributions by several groups of authors (Barbasch-Ma-Sun-Zhu, Adams-Arancibia-Mezo, and Adams-Miller-van Leeuwen-Vogan). The main part of the lecture will be on the approach of the first group of authors for the case of real classical groups: counting by coherent families (combinatorial aspect), construction by theta lifting (analytic aspect), and distinguishing by invariants (algebraic-geometric aspect), resulting in a full classification, and with unitarity as a direct consequence of the construction.