Admissible coadjoint orbits for compact Lie groups (Q1757172)

The notion of \textit{admissible coadjoint orbit} was introduced in order to study the unitary dual of a real Lie group \(K\). This article focuses on the case when \(K\) is compact and connected and then the coadjoint orbits can be grouped into different subsets called here \textit{Dixmier sheets}. A \(K\)-invariant scalar product on the dual of the Lie algebra of \(K\), a Cartan subalgebra and a system of positive roots yield \(\|\rho ^K\|\) as the norm of \(\rho ^K=\frac{1}{2}\sum _{\alpha >0}\alpha \). One of the main results is Theorem 1: Let \(\mathcal{O}\) be a regular admissible coadjoint orbit and let \(\mathcal{P}\) be a coadjoint orbit in a Dixmier sheet \(S\). Then the distance between \(\mathcal{O}\) and \(\mathcal{P}\) is greater than or equal to \(\|\rho ^S\|\).