Poisson transform for the Heisenberg group and eigenfunctions of the sublaplacian (Q2498479)

The author studies the eigenfunctions of the sublaplacian \(\mathcal{L}\) for the Heisenberg group. In the literature, when the space is a Riemannian or sub--Riemannian symmetric space, the eigenfunctions are obtained as joint eigenfunctions of all differential operators which are invariant under the group of isometries of the symmetric spaces. In the case of the Heisenberg group \(\mathbb{H}^n\), the differential operators that commute with the action of the group of isometries are precisely the polynomials in \(\mathcal{L}\) and \(\mathcal{T}=i\frac{\partial}{\partial t}\). In this order of ideas, the author treats the case when the eigenvalues are from a joint spectrum \(\Sigma_n\) of \(\mathcal{L}\) and \(\mathcal{T}\), which is called the Heisenberg fan. Using the Schrödinger representations \(\pi_\lambda (z,t)\) of \(\mathbb{H}^n\), one can define an expansion of \(\pi_\lambda (z,t)\) in terms of the operator analogues of spherical harmonics. This leads to define a Poisson kernel \(P^\lambda_k (z,\omega)\) on \(\mathbb{C}^n \times S^{2n-1}\). The author uses this kernel to define a Poisson transform on the Heisenberg group. He shows that all joint eigenfunctions of \(\mathcal{L}\) and \(\mathcal{T}\) with eigenvalues from the Heisenberg fan are Poisson integrals of certain analytic functionals.