Restrictions of the special representation of \(\text{Aut}(\text{tree}_ 3)\) to two cocompact subgroups (Q1802701)

This paper deals with a special problem in the harmonic analysis for groups acting on trees. Given a homogeneous tree \(T\) of degree 3 (i.e., a connected infinite combinatorial graph with no loop and with three edges leaving each vertex), let \(G\) be the automorphism group of \(T\). With regard to its representation theory this group is quite analogous to the special linear group \(SL_ 2(\mathbb{R})\); the irreducible unitary representations are classified. Given a discrete cocompact subgroup \(\Gamma\) of \(G\) the paper exhibits particular decompositions of the restriction to \(\Gamma\) of the two special discrete series representations of \(G\) for two specific choices of \(\Gamma\).