On spherical modules (Q4035162)

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0754.00024.] This work is an extended version of a talk given at the ``Third Workshop of Representation Theory of Lie Groups and Its Applications''. Let us assume that \(L\) is a reductive complex linear algebraic group and \(\varphi : L \to GL(V)\) a representation of \(L\) on a finite-dimensional complex vector space. The pair \((V,L)\) is said to be a spherical representation of rank one if it has generically closed orbits, \(\dim A = 1\) and, for all \(\rho \in \widehat {L}\), \(\dim \rho^ M \leq 1\) where \(M\) is a principal isotropy group of \((V,L)\), and \(A = V^ M\). The purpose of this note is to present a technique [developed by \textit{J. A. Tirao}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 279, 651-660 (1983; Zbl 0526.22012) and by the author in ``A new proof of Tirao's Restriction Theorem'', Rev. Unione Mat. Argent. and ``Computing some rings of invariants'', Proceedings of the IXth ELAM, and in cooperation with \textit{J. A. Tirao}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 331, 705-725 (1992; Zbl 0760.14006)] which is useful to make some explicit computations of the ring of \(L\)-invariant polynomial functions on \(V\) for a spherical representation of rank one.