An inequality among infinitesimal characters related to the lowest K-types of discrete series

DOI10.3792/PJAA.74.57MaRDI QIDQ1269356zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masato Wakayama

Publication date 6 January 1999

Published in Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.3792/pjaa.74.57

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir operatorDirac operator inequalitydiscrete representation seriesinfinitesimal charactersirreducible unitary representationreal semisimple Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60)

Review text

Let \(G\) be a connected real semisimple Lie group with finite center and maximal compact subgroup \(K,G=KAN\) its Iwasawa decomposition and \(M\) a centralizer of \(A\) in \(K\). A well-known Dirac operator inequality (Parthasarathy, 1972) for discrete representation series asserts that the length of the highest weight of the representations of the Lie algebra of \(K\) occurring in the Harish-Chandra module of an irreducible unitary representation of \(G\) must be at least the eigenvalue of the Casimir operator of the Lie algebra of \(G\). In the paper, an inequality for the infinitesimal characters of irreducible representations of \(M\) is introduced which resembles the above Dirac operator inequality in character and relates to the discrete series of \(G\) via a lowest \(K\)-type. In other words, it is shown that the ``length of the dominant \(M\)-type of the lowest \(K\)-type of the discrete series of \(G\) dominates all the other dominant \(M\)-types which appear in a Weyl group ``orbit of the lowest \(K\)-type. Finally, some questions concerning the introduced inequality are indicated.

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