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Representations associated to small nilpotent orbits for real Spin groups

Representation Theory 2017-09-06 v2

Abstract

The results in this paper provide a comparison between the KK-structure of unipotent representations and regular sections of bundles on nilpotent orbits. Precisely, let G0~=Spin~(a,b)\widetilde{G_0} =\widetilde{Spin}(a,b) with a+b=2na+b=2n, the nonlinear double cover of Spin(a,b)Spin(a,b), and let K~=Spin(a,C)×Spin(b,C)\widetilde{K}=Spin(a, \mathbb C)\times Spin(b, \mathbb C) be the complexification of the maximal compact subgroup of G0~\widetilde{G_0}. We consider the nilpotent orbit Oc\mathcal O_c parametrized by [3 22k 12n4k3][3 \ 2^{2k} \ 1^{2n-4k-3}] with k>0k>0. We provide a list of unipotent representations that are genuine, and prove that the list is complete using the coherent continuation representation. Separately we compute K~\widetilde{K}-spectra of the regular functions on certain real forms O\mathcal O of Oc\mathcal O_c transforming according to appropriate characters ψ\psi under CK~(O)C_{\widetilde{K}}(\mathcal O), and then match them with the K~\widetilde{K}-types of the genuine unipotent representations. The results provide instances for the orbit philosophy.

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@article{arxiv.1702.04841,
  title  = {Representations associated to small nilpotent orbits for real Spin groups},
  author = {Dan Barbasch and Wan-Yu Tsai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.04841},
  year   = {2017}
}
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