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Spherical representations of Lie supergroups

Representation Theory 2016-06-21 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

The classical Cartan-Helgason theorem characterises finite-dimensional spherical representations of reductive Lie groups in terms of their highest weights. We generalise the theorem to the case of a reductive symmetric supergroup pair (G,K)(G,K) of even type. Along the way, we compute the Harish-Chandra cc-function of the symmetric superspace G/KG/K. By way of an application, we show that all spherical representations are self-dual in type AIII|AIII.

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@article{arxiv.1303.6815,
  title  = {Spherical representations of Lie supergroups},
  author = {Alexander Alldridge and Sebastian Schmittner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.6815},
  year   = {2016}
}

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37 pages; title changed; substantially revised version; accepted for publication, J. Func. Anal. (2014)

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