Embeddings of discrete series for a reductive symmetric space (Q5937215)

Let \(G\) be a reductive Lie group of Harish-Chandra class, and let \(H\) be the subgroup of fixed points of an involution \(\sigma\) of \(G\), so that \(G/H\) is a reductive symmetric space. One considers also a Cartan involution \(\theta\) of \(G\) commuting with \(\sigma\) and whose set of fixed points is a maximal compact subgroup \(K\) of \(G\). In 1998, \textit{P. Delorme} gave a complete proof of the Plancherel formula of a reductive symmetric space \(G/H\) [Ann. Math. 147, 417-452 (1998; Zbl 0906.22015)]. It turns out that the factors occuring in this Plancherel formula can be obtained if one knows explicitly how to embed discrete series of \(G/H\) into principal series representations of the group \(G\), induced from \(\sigma\theta\)-stable parabolic subgroups of \(G\). Actually, if one writes the \(\sigma\)-stable Langlands decomposition of such a parabolic subgroup as \(MAN\), then one needs explicit embeddings of the discrete series of \(M/M\cap H\) into some principal series of the group \(M\), induced from minimal \(\sigma\theta\)-parabolic subgroups of \(M\). In the paper under review, the author determines such embeddings. Namely, he explicitly constructs a \(\sigma\theta\)-stable parabolic subgroup of \(G\), denoted \(Q_{1}\), and the Langlands parameters of a principal series representation of \(G\) induced from \(Q_{1}\). Then the author proves that one can embed a discrete series of \(G/H\) into this principal series. His construction uses the realization of \textit{T. Oshima} and \textit{T. Matsuki} [Adv. Stud. Pure Math. 4, 331-390 (1984; Zbl 0577.22012)] of the discrete series of a semisimple symmetric space.