Cohomology of arithmetic groups with infinite dimensional coefficient spaces (Q2572483)

The goal of this paper is to show that multiplicities of automorphic representations can be expressed in terms of cohomology groups with certain infinite dimensional coefficient spaces. This relates a conjecture of Patterson to the Lewis correspondence. The main result of the paper states in particular that for \(\Gamma\) a torsion-free arithmetic subgroup of a split semisimple Lie group \(G\), and \(\pi\) an irreducible unitary principal series representation, the multiplicity of \(\pi\) in the space \(L^{2}(\Gamma\backslash G)\) equals the dimension of \(H^{d-r}_{\text{cusp}}(\Gamma, \pi^{\omega})\), where \(d\) is the dimension of the symmetric space attached to \(G\) (using a maximal compact subgroup), \(r\) is the real rank of \(G\), and \(\pi^{\omega}\) is the subspace of analytic vectors in \(\pi\).