Weyl groups, the Dirac inequality, and isolated unitary unramified representations

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Abstract: I present several applications of the Dirac inequality to the determination of isolated unitary representations and associated "spectral gaps" in the case of unramified principal series. The method works particularly well in order to attach irreducible unitary representations to the large nilpotent orbits (e.g., regular, subregular) in the Langlands dual complex Lie algebra. The results could be viewed as a p-adic analogue of Salamanca-Riba's classification of irreducible unitary (mathfrakg,K)-modules with strongly regular infinitesimal character.


Let \(G\) be a simple algebraic group split over a non-archimedean local field, and \(\mathbb{H}\) be the graded affine Hecke algebra defined by G. Lusztig. The extended Dirac inequality [\textit{D. Barbasch} et al., Acta Math. 209, No. 2, 197--227 (2012; Zbl 1276.20004)] states that the length \(\lvert \nu \rvert\) of the central character \(\nu\) of a unitary simple \(\mathbb{H}\)-module does not exceed \(\lvert h^\vee_{\mathcal{O}^\vee}/2 \rvert\) for certain nilpotent orbits \(\mathcal{O}^\vee\), here \(h^\vee_{\mathcal{O}^\vee}\) is a semisimple element attached to \(\mathcal{O}^\vee\). Using this inequality, the paper under review finds out all unitary \(\mathbb{H}\)-modules with central character \(\nu\) such that \(\lvert \nu \rvert = \lvert h^\vee_{\mathcal{O}^\vee}/2 \rvert\) in which \(\mathcal{O}^\vee\) takes the regular, subregular and sub-subregular orbits respectively, and asserts that these are all unitary \(\mathbb{H}\)-modules with \(\lvert \nu \rvert\) ``large. In contrast, this paper also studies the unitarisability problem related to the minimal orbit in type \(F_4\). By a result of D. Barbasch and A. Moy, the results of this paper can also be applied to corresponding representations of the \(p\)-adic group \(G\). There seems to be some typos in the paper, for example, \begin{itemize} \item in page 4, ``the transpose anti-automorphism \(x \to x^t\) of \(C(\mathfrak{t}^\vee)\) is defined to be the identity on \(\mathfrak{t}^\vee\) should be modified to be ``the negative of the identity on \(\mathfrak{t}^\vee\); \item in page 8, the LHS of the formula above formula (4.1), ``\(w(\nu)/2\) should be ``\(w(\nu)\); \item in page 9, the RHS of the inequality below formula (4.2), ``\(\min\{\sigma \in \operatorname{Irr} W \mid \Hom_W[\sigma, \overline{V}] \ne 0\}\) should be ``\(\min \{\operatorname{d}(\sigma) \mid \sigma \in \operatorname{Irr} W, \Hom_W[\sigma, \overline{V}] \ne 0\}\); \item in page 9, the LHS of the formula above formula (4.3), ``\(\langle \sigma, \sigma \rangle_{-1}^{\mathsf{ell}}\) should be ``\(\langle \sigma, \sigma^\prime \rangle_{-1}^{\mathsf{ell}}\). \end{itemize}



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