Derivatives for smooth representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb R)\) and \(\mathrm{GL}(n, \mathbb C)\) (Q2339601)

Derivatives of smooth representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\) over non-archimedean local fields were defined by \textit{I. N. Bernstein} and \textit{A. V. Zelevinsky} [Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 10, 441--472 (1977; Zbl 0412.22015)]. These derivatives play an important role in the representation theory of \(\mathrm{GL}(n)\), and in the theory of Rankin-Selberg convolution. In the paper under review, the authors define the analogous derivatives in the archimedean case, and prove a series of interesting properties of the derivatives. In particular, they prove that the \(d\)-th derivative \(D^d\) yields an exact functor from the category of Casselman-Wallach representations of \(\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\) of depth \(\leq d\) to the category of Casselman-Wallach representations of \(\mathrm{GL}_{n-d}(F)\). Here \(F\) is an archimedean local field, and a Casselman-Wallach representation of \(\mathrm{GL}_n(F)\) is said to be of depth \(\leq d\) if \(x^d=0\) for every matrix \(x\) in its annihilator variety.