On the analogy between real reductive groups and Cartan motion groups: the Mackey-Higson bijection

DOI10.4310/CJM.2021.V9.N3.A1MaRDI QIDQ2065053zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alexandre Afgoustidis

Publication date 7 January 2022

Published in Cambridge Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.02650

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan motion groupMackey analogyreal reductive groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50)

Abstract: George Mackey suggested in 1975 that there should be analogies between the irreducible unitary representations of a noncompact reductive Lie group $G$ and those of its Cartan motion group $G_0$ $-$ the semidirect product of a maximal compact subgroup of $G$ and a vector space. He conjectured the existence of a natural one-to-one correspondence between "most" irreducible (tempered) representations of $G$ and "most" irreducible (unitary) representations of $G_0$. We here describe a simple and natural bijection between the tempered duals of both groups, and an extension to a one-to-one correspondence between the admissible duals.

Review text

Let \(G\) be a reductive Lie group and \(K\) a maximal compact subgroup with Lie algebras \(\mathfrak{g}\) and \(\mathfrak{k}\) respectively and let \(\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{k}\oplus\mathfrak{p}\) the corresponding Cartan decomposition with \(\theta\) as the associated Cartan involution. The adjoint action of \(K\) on \(\mathfrak{p}\) defines a semidirect product \(G_0:=K\ltimes\mathfrak{p}\), known as the Cartan motion group of \(G\). Let \(\widehat{G_0}\) be the unitary dual of \(G_0\) and \(\widehat{G}^{\mathrm{temp}}\) the tempered dual of \(G\). A Mackey parameter \(\delta=(\chi,\mu)\) is given by an element \(\chi\in\mathfrak{p}^*\) and an irreducible representation \(\mu\) of the stabilizer \(K_\chi\) of \(\chi\) in the coadjoint action of \(K\) on \(\mathfrak{p}^*\). Then one builds, following Vogan's classification by lowest \(K\)-types, an irreducible tempered representation \(V_{L_\chi}(\mu)\) of the centralizer \(L_\chi\) of \(\chi\) in \(G\). Fix a \(\theta\)-stable parabolic subgroup \(P_\chi\) of \(G\), with Levi factor \(L_\chi\) and consider the \(P_\chi\)-representation \(\sigma:=V_{L_\chi}(\mu)\otimes e^{i\chi}\). Finally form the representation \(M(\delta)\) of \(G\) induced from \(\sigma\) (with trivial character for \(N_\chi\)). The main result of the paper under review can now be stated as follows (Theorem 3.5): \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] For every Mackey parameter \(\delta\), \(M(\delta)\) is irreducible and tempered. \item[(b)] Two representations \(M(\delta)\) and \(M(\delta^\prime)\) are unitarily equivalent if, and only if, \(\delta\) and \(\delta^\prime\) are equivalent as Mackey parameters. \item[(c)] This yields a bijection \(\widehat{G_0}\xrightarrow{\simeq}\widehat{G}^{\mathrm{temp}}\), called the Mackey-Higson bijection. \end{itemize}

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