ON HARISH-CHANDRA'S GENERALIZED C-FUNCTIONS.
ON HARISH-CHANDRA'S GENERALIZED C-FUNCTIONS.
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关于 HARISH-Chandra 的广义 C 函数。
DOI:
10.2307/2373718
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发表时间:
1975
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
N. Wallach
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作者:
N. Wallach
1. Initroduction. In [4], Harish-Chandra conjectured that his "generalized C-functions" are efementary. That is, that they have matrix entries that are rational functions in P-functions composed with (affine) roots (see Section 7 for the pertinent definitions and Theorem 7.1 for the precise statement). In Schiffman [6] it is shown that the conjecture is correct for C-functions associated with minimal parabolics (in the case when the semi-simple Lie group is linear). In Wallach [7] Section 8.11, a technique for proving the result of Schiffman is given which is easily seen to generalize to the case of semi-simple Lie groups with finite center. The technique of Wallach [7] also in theory allows one to compute these C-functions. In this paper we prove that the above mentioned conjecture is true for linear semi-simple Lie groups, by reducing it to the minimal parabolic case. In light of the remarks above (and a cursory reading of this paper) one sees that the assumption of linearity is only for technical convenience. However, the motivation for this conjecture comes from the study of reductive algebraic groups over a global field. Harish-Chandra has shown that the C-functions associated to all finite places are elementary. That result combined with the results in this paper suggest that the global C-function is an "Euler product." We prove more than the conjecture of Harish-Chandra in this paper. Theorem 6.1 says that the Fourier coefficients of intertwining integrals of parabolic induced representatives of semi-simple Lie groups are expressible in terms of P-functions. It also gives the pole structure of the intertwining integrals and implies the existance of meromorphic continuation. The fact that the poles (and hence the zeros) lie in a discrete set simplifies the search for complimentary series. (It says that if X is unitary and there is s E W(A) so that