Branching laws for small unitary representations of \(\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb C)\) (Q2874678)

In the paper, the authors consider the principal maximal degenerate series of unitary representations \(\pi_{i\lambda, k}\) of the group \(G=\text{GL}(n, \mathbb C)\), corresponding to the partition \(n=1+(n-1)\). Here \(\lambda\in \mathbb R\), \(k\in \mathbb Z\). They attain the minimal Gelfand-Kirillov dimension among all infinite-dimensional representations of the group \(G\). Let \(P\) be the maximal parabolic subgroup of \(G\) consisting of upper triangular block matrices written in the block form according to the same partition. The representation \(\pi_{i\lambda, k}\) is induced by the character of the subgroup \(P\) that moves a matrix \(p=(p_{ij})\in P\) to the number \(|p_{11}|^{i\lambda-k} p_{11}^k\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors take in \(G\) reductive subgroups \(H\) such that \((G,H)\) forms a symmetric pair, consider restrictions of representations \(\pi_{i\lambda, k}\) to these \(H\), and determine explicitly irreducible unitary representations of \(H\) contained in the decomposition of these restrictions (without any Plancherel formula). Here is the list of these subgroups \(H\) (7 in total): \(\text{U} (n)\), \(\text{GL}(p, \mathbb C) \times \text{GL}(q, \mathbb C)\), \(\text{U} (p,q)\), \(\text{Sp}(m, \mathbb C)\), \(\text{GL}(m, \mathbb H)\), \(\text{O}(n, \mathbb C)\), \(\text{GL}(n, \mathbb R)\). Here \(n=p+q\), \(p,q\geqslant 1\), \(n=2m\). The group \(H\) has 1 or 2 open orbits on \(G/P\), their union is dense in \(G/P\). This orbit is a symmetric space or a flag variety or a fibration over one of those. This allows to apply existing results such as Plancherel formulas for reductive symmetric spaces or structure theory for parabolically induced representations.