Compact Schur-Weyl duality and the type B/C VW-algebra (Q2166345)

Classically, Schur-Weyl duality concerns the left action of \(GL_n\) and the right action of the permutation group \(S_k\) on the tensor power \(\mathbb{C}^n)^{\otimes k}\), and says these are centralizers of each other. Over \(\mathbb{C}\), there are analogues of Schur-Weyl duality for symplectic and orthogonal groups; the permutation group (or its group algebra) is replaced by the so-called Brauer algebra. However, results on Schur-Weyl duality for real orthogonal or symplectic groups are fewer. In the paper under review, the author considers a compact analogue of Schur-Weyl duality for real orthogonal and symplectic groups. The author's technique is to extend the domain and co-domain for certain functors defined by Ciubotaru and Trapa. These latter authors had defined certain exact functors from the category of Harish-Chandra modules of some real classical groups to the category of modules over an associated graded affine Hecke algebra. The extension of the Ciubotaru-Trapa functor \(F_{\mu,k}\) in this paper highly improves their utility. It allows a study of non-spherical and spherical principal series, and provides a framework for understanding unitarity and Langlands quotients. The author introduces a new algebra, called the type B/C VW-algebra \(\mathcal{B}_k^{\theta}\), for which the category of finite dimensional modules is a natural codomain for the functors \(F_{\mu,k}\) applied to any admissible \(O(p,q)\) or \(Sp_{2n}(\mathbb{R})\)-module. The main results proved in this paper are: The functors \(F_{\mu,k}\) map admissible \(O(p,q)\) or \(Sp_{2n}(\mathbb{R})\)-module to \(\mathcal{B}_k^{\theta}\)-modules. These functors map all principal series modules to principal series modules of an associated graded Hecke algebra. The functors preserve Langlands quotients, and unitarity.