Index theorems and discrete series representations of semisimple Lie groups

DOI10.1007/BF02329734MaRDI QIDQ1066288zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Antoni Wawrzyńczyk

Publication date 1983

Published in Annals of Global Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02329734

zbMATH Keywords

\(L^ 2\)-index theoremAtiyah-Singer index theoremCartan decompositiondiscrete series representationsdual Riemannian symmetric pairshomogeneous product bundlesmultiplicityproportionality principlesemisimple algebraic Lie groupsymmetric space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Index theory and related fixed-point theorems on manifolds (58J20)

Review text

Let \((G,K)\) and \((U,K)\) be dual Riemannian symmetric pairs, of the non-compact and the compact type, respectively. Suppose that the set \(\widehat G_ d\) of discrete series representations in \(\widehat G\) is non-empty. Let \(\mathfrak g=\mathfrak k+\mathfrak p\) be the Cartan decomposition for the Lie algebra \(\mathfrak g\) of \(G\). Let \((\sigma,E)\) and \((\tau,F)\) be finite dimensional representations of \(K\). Assume that there exists a positive-\textit{homogeneous} \(K\)-homomorphism between the \(K\)-homogeneous product bundles over \(\mathfrak p^*\) corresponding, respectively, to \(\sigma\) and \(\tau\) which is an isomorphism outside a compact set. The author's main result is the formula: \[ \begin{multlined} (\text{vol } U/K)^{-1}\sum_{\rho \in \hat U}(<\rho |_K:\sigma >-<\rho |_K:\tau >) \deg \rho =\\ =(-1)^{\dim G/K}\sum_{\pi \in \widehat G_d}(<\pi |_K:\sigma >-<\pi |_K:\tau >) \deg \pi. \end{multlined} \] Here \(\deg \pi\) denotes the formal degree and \(<\,:\,>\) denotes the multiplicity number. The formula is proved by use of the \(L^2\)-index theorem of Connes and Moscovici and the Atiyah-Singer index theorem combined with the proportionality principle of Hirzebruch.

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