On integrable representations of a semisimple lie group
On integrable representations of a semisimple lie group
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半单李群的可积表示
DOI:
10.1007/bf01351699
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发表时间:
1976
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
W. Schmid
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作者:
Henryk Hecht;W. Schmid
Let G be a connected, semisimple Lie group, and KCG a maximal compact subgroup. An irreducible unitary representation of G is called integrable if at least one of its matrix coefficients-or equivalently, every K-finite matrix coefficientlies in L~(G). Since the matrix coefficients of a unitary representation are bounded, these representations form a subset of the set of square-integrable, irreducible, unitary representations. Trombi and Varadarajan [-6] have derived a necessary condition for the integrability of a given square-integrable representation. In this note, we shall show that their condition is also sufficient, at least for every matrix group G. Our arguments resemble those previously used by Enright [1], to treat the special case of G= SU (n, 1).According to a criterion of Harish-Chandra [2], G admits square-integrable representations if and only if K has the same rank as G. We assume that this is the case, and we choose a compact Cartan subgroup H of G, with HCK. We shall follow the notation of [3, 5]. Thus go, f0, bo are the Lie algebras of G, K, H, and g, f, b their complexifications. The root system~ b of (g,[~) is the disjoint union of q~" and 4~", the sets of, respectively, compact and noncompact roots in q~. Via exponentiation, the character group H of H becomes isomorphic to a lattice AC ib*. The Weyl groups of (g, b) and (f, b) wilt be referred to as| 4¢~ and~ K In order to be able to use the results of [3, 5], we suppose that G is a matrix group. As pointed out in [3, 5], this assumption can be removed with some further work. Once G is assumed linear, for notational simplicity, and without loss of generality, we may impose the condition G has a simply connected complexification.(1) The set of isomorphism classes of square-integrable, irreducible, unitary representations has been parameterized by Harish-Chandra [2]: to each nonsingular 1 2cA, there corresponds such a representation rcz, and conversely; rex and rt, are isomorphic precisely when w2=#, for some we W. A result of Trombi-Varadarajan asserts that if rc~ is integrable, then