Poisson transform and unipotent complex geometry

Abstract: Our concern is with Riemannian symmetric spaces

Z = G / K

of the non-compact type and more precisely with the Poisson transform

m a t h c a l P_{l} a m b d a

which maps generalized functions on the boundary

p a r t i a l Z

to

l a m b d a

-eigenfunctions on

Z

. Special emphasis is given to a maximal unipotent group

N < G

which naturally acts on both

Z

and

p a r t i a l Z

. The

N

-orbits on

Z

are parametrized by a torus

A = (m a t h b b R_{> 0})^{r} < G

(Iwasawa) and letting the level

a i n A

tend to

0

on a ray we retrieve

N

via

l i m_{a o 0} N a

as an open dense orbit in

p a r t i a l Z

(Bruhat). For positive parameters

l a m b d a

the Poisson transform

m a t h c a l P_{l} a m b d a

is defined an injective for functions

f i n L^{2} (N)

and we give a novel characterization of

m a t h c a l P_{l} a m b d a (L^{2} (N))

in terms of complex analysis. For that we view eigenfunctions

p h i = m a t h c a l P_{l} a m b d a (f)

as families

(p h i_{a})_{a i n A}

of functions on the

N

-orbits, i.e.

p h i_{a} (n) = p h i (n a)

for

n i n N

. The general theory then tells us that there is a tube domain

m a t h c a l T = N e x p (i L a m b d a) s u b s e t N_{m} a t h b b C

such that each

p h i_{a}

extends to a holomorphic function on the scaled tube

m a t h c a l T_{a} = N e x p (i o p e r a t o r n a m e A d (a) L a m b d a)

. We define a class of

N

-invariant weight functions

on the tube

m a t h c a l T

, rescale them for every

a i n A

to a weight

on

m a t h c a l T_{a}

, and show that each

p h i_{a}

lies in the

L^{2}

-weighted Bergman space

. The main result of the article then describes

m a t h c a l P_{l} a m b d a (L^{2} (N))

as those eigenfunctions

p h i

for which

and

|phi|:=sup_{ain A} a^{operatorname{Re}lambda -2 ho} |phi_a|_{mathcal{B}_{a,lambda}}<infty

holds.

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