Contractions of group representations via geometric quantization

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Abstract: We propose a general framework to contract unitary dual of Lie groups via holomorphic quantization of their co-adjoint orbits. The sufficient condition for the contractability of a representation is expressed via cocycles on coadjoint orbits. This condition is checked explicitly for the contraction of mathrmSU2 into mathbbH. The main tool is the geometric quantization. We construct two types of contractions that can be implemented on every matrix Lie group with diagonal contraction matrix.


The authors study contractions of Lie group unitary representations in the setting of geometric quantization. More precisely, they introduce a notion of admissible contraction of (integral) coadjoint orbits which leads to contraction of the corresponding holomorphic representations obtained by geometric quantization of these orbits. This method works, in particular, for contractions of compact groups to locally solvable type I Lie group. A typical example is the contraction of \(\mathrm{SU}(2)\) to the \(3\)-dimensional Heisenberg group, see [\textit{F. Ricci}, Monatsh. Math. 101, 211--225 (1986; Zbl 0588.43007)].











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