Symmetry breaking for orthogonal groups and a conjecture by B. Gross and D. Prasad (Q2313999)

This paper is a summary and reformulation of some of the results in [\textit{T. Kobayashi} and \textit{B. Speh}, Symmetry breaking for representations of rank one orthogonal groups. II. Singapore: Springer (2018; Zbl 1421.81003)]. More precisely, the authors relate their results in [loc. cit.] to the conjectures by B. Gross and D. Prasad on the restriction of representations of orthogonal groups in the Archimedean setting. Let \(\Pi\) be a smooth admissible Fréchet representation of the indefinite orthogonal group \(G=\mathrm{SO}(n+1,1)\) and \(\Pi|_{G'}\) its restriction to the subgroup \(G'=\mathrm{SO}(n,1)\). To understand this restriction as a representation of \(G'\), the authors study the space \(\Hom_{G'}(\Pi|_{G'},\pi)\) of \(G'\)-equivariant continuous linear operators into a smooth admissible Fréchet representation \(\pi\) of \(G'\) and in particular its dimension \(m(\Pi,\pi)\) which is called the multiplicity of \(\pi\) in \(\Pi|_{G'}\). When \(\Pi\) and \(\pi\) are irreducible, it is known that \(m(\Pi,\pi)\leq1\). In their monograph (loc. cit.) the authors explicitly computed the multiplicities \(m(\Pi,\pi)\) for certain parabolically induced representations \(\Pi\) and \(\pi\) and their irreducible quotients. In [Can. J. Math. 44, No. 5, 974--1002 (1992; Zbl 0787.22018)] \textit{B. H. Gross} and \textit{D. Prasad}, formulated a conjecture about \(m(\Pi,\pi)\) in terms of Vogan \(L\)-packets. Reformulating their results in terms of Vogan \(L\)-packets, the authors confirm the Gross-Prasad conjecture for tempered representations \(\Pi\) of \(G\) and \(\pi\) of \(G'\) with the same infinitesimal character as the trivial representation. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1401.11005].