Heat kernel transform on nilmanifolds associated to H-type groups (Q1762349)

The aim of this paper is to study the heat kernel transform on a nilmanifold \(M=\Gamma \setminus N\), where \(N\) is a nilpotent group of Heisenberg type (H-type) and \(\Gamma\) is a lattice subgroup such that \(M\) is compact. The problem on H-type groups can be reduced to the case of the Heisenbeg groups \(\mathbb H^n\) via a partial Radon transform. The problem on H-type nilmanifolds is also reduced to the case of Heisenberg nilmanifolds. Up to an automorphism, coming from the symplectic group, lattice subgroups of the Heisenberg group leading to nilmanifolds are given by lattices of the form \(\Gamma(l)\) with \(l=(l_{1}, \dotsc, l_{n})\), where the \(l_{j}\)'s are positive numbers such that \(l_{j}\) divides \(l_{j+1}\), thus enabling a reduction of the problem to the study of the heat kernel transform on \(L^2(\Gamma(l)\setminus \mathbb H^n)\). \(L^2(\Gamma(l)\setminus \mathbb H^n)\) can be decomposed into an orthogonal direct sum of subspaces. This is achieved by means of variants of Weil-Brezin transforms. The image of each of the subspaces under the heat kernel transform is then characterized. Twisted Bergman spaces and Hermite-Bergman spaces occur in the characterization.