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The Plancherel Formula for Minimal Parabolic Subgroups

Representation Theory 2013-12-19 v3

Abstract

In a recent paper we found conditions for a nilpotent Lie group to be foliated into subgroups that have square integrable unitary representations that fit together to form a filtration by normal subgroups. That resulted in explicit character formulae, Plancherel formulae and multiplicity formulae. We also showed that nilradicals NN of minimal parabolic subgroups P=MANP = MAN enjoy that "stepwise square integrable" property. Here we extend those results from NN to PP. The Pfaffian polynomials, which give orthogonality relations and Plancherel density for NN, also give a semiinvariant differential operator that compensates lack of unimodularity for PP. The result is a completely explicit Plancherel formula for PP.

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@article{arxiv.1306.6392,
  title  = {The Plancherel Formula for Minimal Parabolic Subgroups},
  author = {Joseph A. Wolf},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.6392},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This version corrects some typographical errors, regularizes some notation, adds a few references and some expository material, and fixes one incorrect reference

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