The Plancherel formula for spherical functions with a one-dimensional \(K\)-type on a simply connected simple Lie group of Hermitian type (Q1328296)

This paper generalizes the well-known theory of spherical functions on Riemannian symmetric spaces, and the associated harmonic analysis (inversion formula, Plancherel formula, Paley-Wiener theorem ...) to the setting of character-valued spherical functions on Hermitian symmetric spaces. Of course the whole subject is inspired by Harish-Chandra's fundamental work and the later contributions by Helgason a. o. The first attempt to generalize this work to character-valued spherical functions was undertaken by R. Takahashi for \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb{R})\), strangely enough no reference is made to this paper. Reference is made to earlier attempts for the universal covering of \(\mathrm{SU}(1,n)\) and \(\S 8\) deals with this case. This is very illuminating for the reader. It serves as a model for the general case. The possible occurrence of discrete series representations in the Plancherel formula (in contrast with the case of the trivial character) is very well explained by indicating the poles of the \(c\)-function. The paper is rather technical and is a real product of the Japanese school of Lie groups, headed by T. Oshima. In particular, the asymptotics of joint eigenfunctions of invariant differential operators is completely in the spirit of the Japanese school. Finally the main idea to prove the Plancherel formula is due to J. Rosenberg and is well-known in the classical case of the trivial character. Interesting points are the definition of the residues for the meromorphic \(c\)-functions of several complex variables, the proof of square- integrability of the spherical functions associated with the poles and the identification with holomorphic discrete series representations. The paper is mainly the author's doctoral thesis at the University of Tokyo.