Matrix valued spherical functions associated to the complex projective plane

Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Generalized hypergeometric series, ({}_pF_q) (33C20) Harmonic analysis and spherical functions (43A90)

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to compute all irreducible spherical functions on

G = S U (3)

of arbitrary type

d e l t a i n h a t K

, where

K = m a t h r m S (m a t h r m U (2) i m e s m a t h r m U (1)) s i m e q m a t h r m U (2)

. This is accomplished by associating to a spherical function

P h i

on

G

a matrix valued function

H

on the complex projective plane

P_{2} (m a t h b b C) = G / K

. It is well known that there is a fruitful connection between the hypergeometric function of Euler and Gauss and the spherical functions of trivial type associated to a rank one symmetric pair

(G, K)

. But the relation of spherical functions of types of dimension bigger than one with classical analysis, has not been worked out even in the case of an example of a rank one pair. The entries of

H

are solutions of two systems of ordinary differential equations. There is no ready made approach to such a pair of systems, or even to a single system of this kind. In our case the situation is very favorable and the solution to this pair of systems can be exhibited explicitely in terms of a special class of generalized hypergeometric functions

_{p + 1} F_{p}

.

Review text

The aim of this paper is to determine matrix-valued spherical functions on the complex projective plane which is realized here as the homogeneous space \(G/K\) with \(G=SU(3)\) and \(H=S(U(2) \times U(1))\). More precisely, the authors parametrize the dual space \(\widehat K\) of \(K\) by \(\mathbb{Z} \times \mathbb{Z}_+\). Then, for a given irreducible representation \((n,k) \equiv \delta \in\widehat K\) on the finite dimensional Hilbert space \(V\) with normalized character \(\chi_\delta\), a spherical function \(\psi\) of \(G\) of type \(\delta\) is defined as a continuous function \(\psi:G\to V\) with \(\psi(e)=I\) and \[ \psi(x)\psi(y) =\int_K\chi_\delta (k^{-1})\psi (xky)dk\;(x,y\in G). \] Some well-known equivalent reformulations of this definition are discussed in the paper. In order to determine all spherical functions of some given type \(\delta\), the authors consider the unique holomorphic multiplicative extension of \(\delta:K\to V\) to \(M(2,\mathbb{C})\to V\) and define the function \(\psi_\delta (g):=\delta (A(g))\), where \(A(g)\) is the left upper \(2\times 2\)-block of \(g\in G\). It turns out that \(\psi_\delta\) is a spherical function of type \(\delta\), and that the entries of matrix-valued functions \(H(g):=\psi (g)\cdot \psi_\delta (g)^{-1}\) (which are functions with singularities on \(G)\) are solutions of two systems of ordinary differential equations. As a consequence, these matrix entries are described in terms of generalized hypergeometric functions.

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