Corwin-Greenleaf multiplicity function of a class of Lie groups
The paper is devoted to the study of the multiplicity problem in the framework of the orbit method. Let \(G= K \ltimes N\) be the semi-direct product of a compact Lie group \(K\) and a nilpotent group \(N\), \(\mathfrak g = \mathrm{Lie}\; G, \mathfrak k = \mathrm{Lie}\; K\) the corresponding Lie algebras, \(\mathfrak g^*, \mathfrak k^*\) the dual vector spaces, \(q : \mathfrak g^* \to \mathfrak k^*\) be the natural projection map, \(\mathcal O^G, \mathcal O^K\) the corresponding coadjoint orbit spaces. Following the orbit method the irreducible representations of \(G\), \(K\) are in a bijective correspondence with the admissible coadjoint orbits and the Mackey induction therefore can be parametrized by some functionals on Lie algebras. The question is for the Mackey induced parameters \((\mu,s)\) how to read out the multiplicity \(m_{\pi(\mu,s)}(\tau_\lambda)\) of \(\tau_\lambda\in \hat K\) in the restriction \(\pi_{(\mu,s)} |_{K} \) of the induced representation \(\mathrm{ind}^G_{N_A \ltimes N}(1_{K_A} \otimes \sigma_s \circ W_s)\) from the Corwin-Greenleaf multiplicity function \(\chi(\mathcal O^G, \mathcal O^K)\) of the number of \(K\)-orbits in the inverse image \(\mathcal O^G \cap q^{-1}(\mathcal O^K)\). \N\NThe main results of the paper are:\N\begin{itemize}\N\item[(1)] for an irreducible representation \(\tau_\lambda \in \hat K\) the multiplicity \(m_{\pi_{(0,s)}}(\tau_\lambda)\) of \(\tau_\lambda\) in the restriction to \(K\) of the induced representation \(\pi_{(0,s)} =\mathrm{ind}^G_{N_A \ltimes N}(1_{K_A} \otimes \sigma_s \circ W_s)\) is non-zero, then the Corwin-Greenleaf multiplicity function \(\chi(\mathcal O^G, \mathcal O^K)\) is non-zero (Theorems 1.3);\N\item[(2)] For any central element \(\varphi \in \mathfrak k_A^*\), Corwin-Greenleaf multiplicity is multiplicity-free such that \(\chi(\mathcal O^{G_A}_{(\varphi,s)}, \mathcal O^{K_A}_\nu) \leq 1\), where \(K_A\) is the stabilizer of \(A \in \mathfrak z\) in \(K\), \(G_A = K_A \ltimes N\) (Theorems 1.4);\N\item[(3)] For the representation \(\pi_{(\mu,s)} = \mathrm{ind}^{N \times N}_{N_A \ltimes N}(\rho_\mu \otimes \sigma_s \circ W_s)\) and \(\tau_\lambda\in \hat K\), the multiplicity \(m_{\pi_{(\mu,s)}}(\tau_\lambda)\) is non-zero if and only if \(\mathrm{supp}(\tau |_{K_A}) \cap \mathrm{supp}(\rho_\mu \otimes W_s)\) is non-zero (Theorems 1.5).\N\end{itemize}
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