Classification of admissible nilpotent orbits in the classical real Lie algebras (Q752203): Difference between revisions

Let G be a real classical Lie group. The paper studies G-orbits of nilpotent elements in the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak g}\) of G. It gives a complete answer to the following question, motivated by Duflo's general construction of unitary representations: when is such an orbit admissible? By means of SL(2)-triples, the problem is reduced to the similar problem for nilpotent K-orbits in the space \({\mathfrak p}_{{\mathbb{C}}}\), obtained from the Cartan decomposition \({\mathfrak g}={\mathfrak k}+{\mathfrak p}\) by complexification. The first main result states that, if G is SL(n,\({\mathbb{R}})\), GL(n,\({\mathbb{R}})\), \(SU^*(2n)\), \(U^*(2n)\), Sp(2m,2n) or \(O^*(2n)\), then all nilpotent G-orbits in \({\mathfrak g}\) are admissible. For the remaining cases, the author makes use of the classification of nilpotent K-orbits by means of Young diagrams. The second main result states that, if G is SU(m,n), resp. U(m,n), O(m,n) or Sp(2n,\({\mathbb{R}})\), then a nilpotent G-orbit in \({\mathfrak g}\) is admissible if and only if the associated Young diagram has property (P), resp. \((P')\), dealing with evenness of row lengths in the diagram.