On the Helgason-Johnson bound

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Abstract: Let G be a simple non-compact linear Lie group. Let pi be any irreducible unitary representation of G with infinitesimal character Lambda whose continuous part is u. The beautiful Helgason-Jonson bound in 1969 says that the norm of u is upper bounded by the norm of ho(G), which stands for the half sum of the positive roots of G. The current paper aims to give a framework to sharpen the Helgason-Johnson bound when pi is infinite-dimensional. We have explicit results for exceptional Lie groups. Ingredients of the proof include Parathasarathy's Dirac operator inequality, Vogan pencil, and the unitarily small convex hull introduced by Salamanca-Riba and Vogan.


Let \(G\) be connected simple non-compact linear Lie group. Let \(\pi\) be any irreducible unitary representation of \(G\) with infinitesimal character \((\lambda, \nu) \). A theorem of Helgason-Jonson bound shows that norm of \(\nu\) is bounded by the norm \(\Vert \cdot \Vert\) of \(\rho_G\). In case by case analysis, the author sharpens the Helgason-Johnson bound when \(\pi\) is infinite-dimensional. For example, \(G\) a complex Lie group, Lie\((G)=\mathfrak g_{2}: \Vert \nu \Vert \leq \sqrt{26}, \Vert \rho_G \Vert = \sqrt{56}\); Lie\((G)=\mathfrak f_{4}: \Vert \nu \Vert \leq \sqrt{78}, \Vert \rho_G \Vert = \sqrt{156}\).



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