scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1494182
composition serieshighest weight vectorsisotypic spacemaximal compact subgroupprincipal series representationsemisimple Lie group
Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) (17B10) Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47)
Recent investigations have shown that, in many cases, when in a principal series representation \(\rho\) of a semisimple Lie group the (topologically) irreducible subrepresentations of the restriction to a maximal compact subgroup are multiplicity-free, then it is possible to understand the structure of \(\rho\), including composition series and unitarity. In this paper, the principal series representations of \(GL_3(\mathbb{R})\) are investigated in a realization via the action of the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak gl}_3\) of \(GL_3(\mathbb{R})\) on complex-valued functions on \(\mathbb{R}^3\times (\mathbb{R}^3)^*\), where \((\mathbb{R}^3)^*\) is the dual vector space of \(\mathbb{R}^3\). Let \(r\) and \(\widetilde r\) be, respectively, the Euclidean lengths of \(\mathbb{R}^3\) and \((\mathbb{R}^3)^*\), let \({\mathcal N}\) be the subvariety of \(\mathbb{R}^3\oplus(\mathbb{R}^3)^*\) such that \(r\widetilde r=0\) and \({\mathcal S}^{(d_1,d_2)} ({\mathcal N})\) the vector space of all functions on \({\mathcal N}\) which are homogeneous of (complex) degrees \(d_1\) and \(d_2\), respectively, under dilations of \((\mathbb{R}^3)^*\). Then the space \({\mathcal S}^{(d_1, d_2)}({\mathcal N})\) carries a principal series representation of \(GL_3(\mathbb{R})\) and, as \(d_1,d_2\) vary in \(\mathbb{C}\), we obtain representatives of all possible equivalence classes of principal series representations of \(GL_3(\mathbb{R})\), up to twisting by a character. The author finds that each isotypic space for the maximal compact subgroup \(O_3\) of \(GL_3(\mathbb{R})\), i.e., the vector subspace of all the \({\mathfrak so}_3\)-highest weight vectors in a space \({\mathcal S}^{(d_1,d_2)} ({\mathcal N})\) has, up to scalar multiples, a unique distinguished basis compatible with the occurrence of finite-dimensional subrepresentations. Whenever \(d_1\) or \(d_2\) is a non-negative integer, this basis is adapted to display the submodule structure of \({\mathcal S}^{(d_1,d_2)} ({\mathcal N})\); in particular, when \(d_1\) and \(d_2\) are both non-negative integers, we get the full composition series. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0941.00016].
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