Hyperbolic spaces, principal series, and O(2, )

DOI10.1007/S00013-019-01399-2MaRDI QIDQ2285067zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre Py, Arturo Sanchez

Publication date 16 January 2020

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03782

zbMATH Keywords

Gelfand pairhyperbolic spaceprincipal seriesrepresentation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other representations of locally compact groups (22D12) Structure and representation of the Lorentz group (22E43) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47)

Abstract: We prove that there exists no irreducible representation of the identity component of the isometry group $mPO(1,n)$ of the real hyperbolic space of dimension $n$ into the group $mO(2,infty)$, if $ngeq3$. This is motivated by the existence of irreducible representations (arising from the spherical principal series) of $mPO(1,n{)}^{circ}$ into the groups $mO(p,infty)$ for other values of $p$.

Review text

Let \(B_p(x)\) be the quadratic form \(\sum \limits _{j=1}^p x_j^2 - \sum \limits _{j \ge p+1}x_j^2\) on a real separable Hilbert space and the isometry group of this form is denoted by \(O(p, \infty\)). Also let \(PO(1; n)\) be the isometry group of the \(n\)-dimensional real hyperbolic space. In this article it is proved that there exists no irreducible representation of the identity component \(PO(1; n)^0\) of the group \(PO(1; n)\) into the group \(O(2; \infty)\). In [Am. J. Math. 136, No. 5, 1249--1299 (2014; Zbl 1304.53030)], \textit{N. Monod} and the first author proved that if \(2 < p < n\) and \(n > 4\), then there is no irreducible representation \(PO(1; n)^0 \to O(p; \infty)\). Also some results for the cases of complex hyperbolic and Hilbert spaces are considered. The authors suppose that some of their ideas could be used to prove the nonexistence of irreducible representations into \(O(2; \infty)\) for other groups.

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