Unitary representations with non-zero Dirac cohomology for complex E₆

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Abstract: This paper classifies the equivalence classes of irreducible unitary representations with nonvanishing Dirac cohomology for complex E6. This is achieved by using our finiteness result, and by improving the computing method.


\(G\) is a simply connected complex simple Lie group of type \(E_6\). This paper determines, up to equivalence, the set \(G^d\) of unitary irreducible representations for \(G\) with nonzero Dirac cohomology. A similar result for the complex Lie group of type \(F_4\) has been published in [\textit{J. Ding} and the author, ``Unitary representations with Dirac cohomology: a finiteness result, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1702.01876}]. In the paper under review, the author shows: \(G^d\) consists of 33 scattered representations whose spin-lowest \(K\)-types are all unitarily small, and 213 strings of representations. Moreover, each representation in \(G^d\) has a unique spin-lowest \(K-\)type which occurs with multiplicity one. The notion of unitarily small (u-small for short) was introduced by Salamanca-Riba and Vogan. A consequence of the theorem, in view of a conjecture stated by Barbasch and Pandzic, is that the scattered part should consist of unipotent representations. The proof is based on the classification of the equivalence classes for \((\mathfrak{g}, K)\)-modules due to Zhelobenko, and the observation: to find all the irreducible unitary representations with non-zero Dirac cohomology, it suffices to consider \(J(\lambda, -s\lambda)\), where \(s\) is an involution in the Weyl group, and \(\lambda\) is a weight such that \(2\lambda\) is dominant integral and regular. Here, \(J(\lambda, -s\lambda)\) is the irreducible \((\mathfrak{g},K)\)-module with Zhelobenko parameters \(\lambda_L=\lambda, \lambda_R =-s\lambda\); the finiteness result due to the author: \(G^d\) consists of finitely many scattered members (the scattered part) and finitely many strings of members (the string part).











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