Uniqueness of Bessel models: the archimedean case (Q707555)

One of the most important problems in representation theory is to construct various models with good properties. Some of the best-known such models are the Whittaker models, the Kirillov models and, more recently, the Bessel models. The notion of Bessel models appears for the first time in [\textit{M. E. Novodvorskij} and \textit{I. I. Pyatetskij-Shapiro}, Math. USSR, Sb. 19(1973), 243--255 (1974; Zbl 0281.22019)], and originates from classical Bessel functions. Bessel models are used to study properties of automorphic \(L\)-functions, in the construction of certain automorphic descents to classical groups and in the construction of local descents for cuspidal representations of \(p\)-adic groups. Further applications of these models to the theory of automorphic forms are also expected. In the paper under review, the authors prove the local uniqueness of Bessel models for general linear, unitary and orthogonal groups in the archimedean case. Local uniqueness represents one of the key properties of these models, which makes their applications possible. One significant and relevant aim of this paper is to show that the archimedean local uniqueness of Bessel models can be reduced to the uniqueness of the spherical models (this reduction is already known for \(p\)-adic groups).