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The Berezin form on symmetric $R$-spaces and reflection positivity

Representation Theory 2019-01-10 v1

Abstract

For a symmetric RR-space K/L=G/PK/L=G/P the standard intertwining operators provide a canonical GG-invariant pairing between sections of line bundles over G/PG/P and its opposite G/PG/\overline{P}. Twisting this pairing with an involution of GG which defines a non-compactly causal symmetric space G/HG/H we obtain an HH-invariant form on sections of line bundles over G/PG/P. Restricting to the open HH-orbits in G/PG/P constructs the Berezin forms studied previously by G. van Dijk, S. C. Hille and V. F. Molchanov. We determine for which HH-orbits in G/PG/P and for which line bundles the Berezin form is positive semidefinite, and in this case identify the corresponding representations of the dual group GcG^c as unitary highest weight representations. We further relate this procedure of passing from representations of GG to representations of GcG^c to reflection positivity.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00874,
  title  = {The Berezin form on symmetric $R$-spaces and reflection positivity},
  author = {Jan Möllers and Gestur Ólafsson and Bent Ørsted},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00874},
  year   = {2019}
}

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42 pages