Orthogonality relations and harmonic forms for semisimple Lie groups (Q1969493)

Certain irreducible unitary representations of a connected semisimple Lie group \(G\) with finite center and containing a compact Cartan subgroup \(T\) arise as spaces of harmonic forms associated to Dolbeault cohomology of line bundles over the complex homogeneous space \(G/T\). The current techniques for unitarizing spaces of harmonic forms are based on some results of \textit{J. Rawnsley, W. Schmid} and \textit{J. A. Wolf} [J. Funct. Anal. 51, 1-114 (1983; Zbl 0511.22005)] and rely on some notion of square integrability. The author, based on some earlier constructions, considers certain cases where square integrability does not apply. He shows that the unitary structures of these realisations are directly related to the orthogonality relations for the matrix coefficients of these representations. Using this connection, he exhibits unitary realizations of certain limits of discrete series representations of \(SU(2,1)\) as spaces of harmonic forms.