Contraction of compact semisimple Lie groups via Berezin quantization (Q2267699)

This paper establishes contractions of a compact semisimple Lie group. Let us recall that contractions of Lie groups have been introduced by Inonu and Wigner for physical purposes. Generally speaking, contraction theory is a way to relate the harmonic analysis on two Lie groups and enables one to recover as a byproduct the properties of special functions. In this paper, the author concentrates on the contractions of the unitary irreducible representations of a compact semisimple Lie group to the unitary irreducible representations of a Heisenberg group. The Berezin calculus is then introduced and related to the contraction of the Lie groups. Finally, the example of \(G= \text{SU}(p+q)\) is studied.