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A fundamental problem in the representation theory of real reductive groups initiated by Harish Chandra is the explicit determination of the character of an irreducible admissible representation of a specific real reductive group \(G_R\). The character problem was solved for linear groups by D. A. Vogan in a series of seminal papers during the period 1979-1983. The methods of Vogan are not sufficient to handle the problem of general nonlinear groups and for such groups the character problem is far from solved. In this paper the authors establish a Kazhdan-Lusztig algorithm to obtain the characters of irreducible representations of the nonlinear group, namely the metaplectic group \(Mp(2n,R)\), with half integral infinitesimal character. Then the authors obtain a very important duality theorem cited in this paper as Theorem 0.1. In the course of proving this theorem the authors develop new ideas and methods to extend the existing results of Vogan on linear groups for general nonlinear groups. The authors promise to establish a complete duality theorem for the metaplectic group by reducing the case of general infinitesimal character to the case of half integral infinitesimal character.