Real double flag varieties for the symplectic group (Q1677464)

Flag varieties, in particular double flag varieties, and their geometry have played an important role in representation theories. This paper studies the real double flag variety associated with the real sympletic group \(G\) and the Levi part \(L\) of the Siegel parabolic subgroup. It gives a detailed study of the orbit structure under the natural action of \(L\), and finds natural explicit integral transforms between degenerate principal series of the two reductive Lie groups \(L\) and \(G\). The symmetric space associated with \(G\) is a basic Hermitian symmetric space, and the methods of this paper can be applied to other Hermitian type groups, in particular of tube type.