Unitary representations of unimodular Lie groups in Bergman spaces (Q455626)

The main result of the paper is the following Theorem. Let \(G\) be a connected unimodular Lie group. Then there is a representation \(\mathcal R\) of \(G\) in \(L^2{\mathcal O}(M_\epsilon)\) such that \textrm{ker(}\(\mathcal R\)\textrm{)} is a compact subgroup of \(G\). In particular, if \(G\) does not have compact normal subgroups, then \(\mathcal R\) is a faithful representation. Here \({\mathcal O}(M_\epsilon)\) is the space of holomorphic functions on a neighborhood \(M_\epsilon\) of \(G\) in its complexification. The authors give a fairly precise description of the Levi polynomial at a point of the boundary of a manifold. It turns out that the \(M_\epsilon\) naturally constructed from the complexification of the underlying manifold of \(G\) do not seem to possess the amenability property, and the authors ``augment'' these manifolds in order to obtain manifolds that do. It is shown that restricting from the augmented manifold back down to \(M_\epsilon\), yields a nontrivial Bergman space \(L^2{\mathcal O}(M_\epsilon)\). The authors describe a simple method of constructing examples of \(G\)-manifolds, applied to the Heisenberg group in three dimensions.