Characteristic cycles of highest weight Harish-Chandra modules (Q1629690)

The author deals with characteristic cycles, which play an important role in the representation theory of real reductive Lie groups and are nowadays being much studied. Concretely, the \textit{L. Barchini} and the author [Transform. Groups 22, No. 3, 591--630 (2017; Zbl 1377.22012)] gave explicitly the characteristic cycles of highest weight Harish-Chandra modules for \(\mathrm{Sp}(2n, {\mathbb R})\). Recall that a highest weight Harish-Chandra module is an irreducible Harish-Chandra module having a vector annihilated by all root vectors \(X_\alpha\) for \(\alpha\) in some positive system of roots (for some Cartan subalgebra). The simple groups for which infinite dimensional highest weight Harish-Chandra modules occur are those groups of hermitian type. The most difficult case is when \(G_{\mathbf R}\) is \(\mathrm{Sp}(2n, \mathbf R)\), one of the simple groups of hermitian type. Apart from other results, the author proves in the paper under review that the number of irreducible highest weight Harish-Chandra modules of infinitesimal character \(\rho\) having irreducible characteristic cycle is given by \(N(2l) = {2 l +1 \choose l}\) and \(N(2l+1) = 2 N(2 l)\) and that, when \(n = 2 l\), the proportion of highest weight Harish-Chandra modules with irreducible characteristic cycle is \(\frac{N(2l)}{2^{2l}} = \frac{1}{2^{2l}}{2 l +1 \choose l} \sim (\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}} \,\frac{1}{\sqrt{l}}).\)