Geometry of coadjoint orbits and multiplicity-one branching laws for symmetric pairs (Q1792604)

The paper mainly deals with the so-called Corwin-Greenleaf number; that is, the number of the \(H\)-orbits on the intersection of a \(G\)-coadjoint orbit on \(\sqrt{-1}\mathfrak{g}^*\) and the preimage of an \(H\)-coadjoint orbit on \(\sqrt{-1}\mathfrak{h}^*\) under the projection \(\sqrt{-1}\mathfrak{g}^*\rightarrow \sqrt{-1}\mathfrak{h}^*\). The results in this paper correspond to the branching rules of irreducible unitary representations for simple Lie groups, which were studied by the first author of the paper in recent years. Here the authors show that this number is at most one when \((G,H)\) is a symmetric pair of holomorphic type, which corresponds to the multiplicity-free decomposition of an irreducible unitary lowest weight representation of scalar type of a simple Lie group upon the restriction to its symmetric subgroup.