Berezin kernels of tube domains (Q5933450)

The authors study the irreducible decomposition of a holomorphic discrete series of a semisimple Lie group \(G\) under certain subgroups \(H\). More exactly, let \(G/K\) be a hermitian symmetric space of tube type. Consider a scalar holomorphic discrete series representation realized as a weighted Bergman space of holomorphic functions on \(G/K\). There are many formally real forms in \(G/K\) which, when considered as submanifolds of \(G/K\) with the induced metric, are also Riemannian symmetric spaces \(H/L\). In the present paper the authors find the irreducible decomposition under \(H\) of the holomorphic representation. This amounts to a computation of the spherical transform of a certain integral kernel, also called Berezin kernel. The same results were also obtained independently by \textit{Yu. Neretin} (preprint) and by the reviewer [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 353, 3769-3787 (2001; Zbl 0965.22015)] by some different methods.