Spherical inversion for a small $K$-type on the split real Lie group of type $G_2$
Hiroshi Oda, Nobukazu Shimeno

TL;DR
This paper derives explicit formulas for the Harish-Chandra c-function and spherical inversion for a small K-type on the split real Lie group of type G2, advancing harmonic analysis on this group.
Contribution
It provides the first explicit formulas for the Harish-Chandra c-function and spherical inversion for a small K-type on G2, a significant step in understanding harmonic analysis on this group.
Findings
Explicit formula for the Harish-Chandra c-function for the small K-type on G2.
Explicit formula for spherical inversion for this small K-type.
Enhances understanding of harmonic analysis on split real Lie groups of type G2.
Abstract
We give an explicit formula for the Harish-Chandra -function for a small -type on a split real Lie group of type . As an application we give an explicit formula for spherical inversion for this small -type.
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TopicsAdvanced Algebra and Geometry · Algebraic structures and combinatorial models · Nonlinear Waves and Solitons
Spherical inversion
for a small -type on the split real Lie group of type
Hiroshi Oda
Faculty of Engineering, Takushoku University, 815-1 Tatemachi, Hachioji, Tokyo 193-0985, Japan
and
Nobukazu Shimeno
School of Science & Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 2-1 Gakuen, Sanda, Hyogo 669-1337, Japan
Dedicated to Professor Toshio Oshima on the occasion of his 70-th birthday
Abstract.
We give an explicit formula for the Harish-Chandra -function for a small -type on a split real Lie group of type . As an application we give an explicit formula for spherical inversion for this small -type.
Key words and phrases:
small -type, spherical function, spherical transform
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
22E45, 43A90
1. Introduction
Harmonic analysis on a Riemannian symmetric space of the noncompact type is by now well developed (cf. [17]). A natural extension is to study harmonic analysis on homogeneous vector bundles over . One of fundamental problems in harmonic analysis is to establish the Plancherel theorem. Harish-Chandra establishes a general theory of the Eisenstein integrals and the Plancherel theorem for noncompact real semisimple Lie groups (cf. [15, 18, 33, 34]). The Plancherel theorem on a homogeneous vector bundle over associated with an irreducible representation of follows from Harish-Chandra’s result by restricting the Plancherel measure to -finite functions of type . But it is a highly nontrivial and important problem to determine the Plancherel measure on the associated vector bundle as explicitly as in the case of the trivial -type. There are several studies in this direction (cf. [8, 9, 11, 12, 16, 21, 30, 31]).
In our previous paper [21], we study elementary spherical functions on with a small -type (in the sense of Wallach [33, §11.3]). Namely, we identify elementary spherical functions with the Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric function (cf. [16, 23]) and apply the inversion formula and the Plancherel formula for the hypergeometric Fourier transform ([22]) to obtain the inversion formula and the Plancherel formula for the -spherical transform. But there is an exception in [21]. Namely, for a certain small -type of a noncompact Lie group of type , elementary spherical functions can not be expressed by the Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric function.
In this paper we give a complete treatment of harmonic analysis of -spherical transform for each small -type of . Namely, we give an explicit formula for the Harish-Chandra -function and determine the Plancherel measure explicitly. The most continuous part of the Plancherel measure is on and the other spectra with supports of lower dimensions are given explicitly by using residue calculus. As indicated by Oshima [24] and as was done for one-dimensional -types by the second author [30], we could prove the inversion formula for the -spherical tranform in the case of by extending Rosenberg’s method of a proof of the inversion formula in the case of the trivial -type ([25]). Instead of doing this, we utilize general results on the Plancherel theorem and residue calculus on due to Harish-Chandra and Arthur (cf. [15, 1, 18, 33]) and devote ourselves to the determination of the Plancherel measure.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2 we give general results for elementary -spherical functions, the Harish-Chandra -function, the inversion formula for -spherical transform with respect to a small -type on a noncompact real semisimple Lie group of finite center.
In Section 3 we study the case of . We give an explicit formula of the -function (Theorem 3.3), the inversion formula, and the Plancherel formula (Theorem 3.5, Corollary 3.6) for each small -type. In particular, they cover the small -type that is not treated in [21].
2. Elementary spherical functions
for small -types
2.1. Notation
Let denote the set of the nonnegative integers. Let be a non-compact connected real semisimple Lie group of finite center and a maximal compact subgroup of . Let denote the identity element of . Lie algebras of Lie groups , etc. are denoted by the corresponding German letter , etc. Let be the Cartan decomposition and a maximal abelian subspace of . Let denote the root system for . For , let denote the corresponding root space and . Fix a positive system and let denote the set of simple roots in . Define and . Then we have the Iwasawa decomposition . Define .
Let denote the Weyl group of and the reflection across (). We have , where (resp. ) is the normalizer (resp. centralizer) of in .
Define
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We have the Cartan decomposition .
Let denote the inner product on induced by the Killing form on and the corresponding norm. Define
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2.2. Elementary -spherical function
In this subsection, we review elementary -spherical functions for small -types according to [21].
Let be a small -type, that is, is irreducible. We call an -valued function on satisfying
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a -spherical function.
Let denote the algebra of the invariant differential operators on the homogeneous vector bundle over associated with . Let denote the universal enveloping algebra of and the set of the -invariant elements in . Let in . We have
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Let denote the symmetric algebra of and the set of the -invariant elements in . There exists an algebra homomorphism
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with the kernel (cf. [33, Lemma 11.3.2, Lemma 11.3.3]). Notice that the homomorphism is independent of the choice of . Thus we have the generalized Harish-Chandra isomorphism \gamma^{\pi}:\boldsymbol{D}^{\pi}\xrightarrow{\smash[b]{\lower 3.01385pt\hbox{\sim}}}S(\mathfrak{a}_{\mathbb{C}})^{W}. Therefore, any algebra homomorphism from to is of the form for some \lambda\in\lower 3.44444pt\hbox{W}\backslash\mathfrak{a}_{\mathbb{C}}^{*}.
For \lambda\in\lower 3.44444pt\hbox{W}\backslash\mathfrak{a}_{\mathbb{C}}^{*} there exists a unique smooth -spherical function satisfying and (cf. [21, Theorem 1.4]). We call the elementary -spherical function. Since contains an elliptic operator, is real analytic. Moreover, it has an integral representation
[TABLE]
Here given , define and by . Notice that is independent of the choice of , though the right hand side of (1) depends on at first glance. Moreover, depends holomorphically on .
Formula (1) is a special case of the integral representations of elementary spherical functions (or more generally the Eisenstein integrals) given by Harish-Chandra (cf. [34, §6.2.2, §9.1.5], [8, (42)], [18, (14.20)]).
2.3. Harish-Chandra series
In this subsection, we review the Harish-Chandra expansion of the elementary spherical function according to [34, § 9.1]. We assume is a small -type.
Let denote the space of the smooth -spherical functions. If then takes values in . Hence we regard as a scalar valued function on . Let denote the space of the -invariant smooth functions on . The restriction map gives an isomorphism C^{\infty}(G,\pi,\pi)\xrightarrow{\smash[b]{\lower 3.01385pt\hbox{\sim}}}C^{\infty}(\mathfrak{a})^{W} ([21, Theorem 1.5]).
Let be the unital algebra of functions on generated by (). For any there exists a unique -invariant differential operator such that for any
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on ([21, Proposition 3.10]). We call the -radial part of . The function satisfies differential equations
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Let denote the set of of the form . For , let denote the hyperplane
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If for any , then there exists a unique convergent series solution
[TABLE]
of (2) with and . This is a special case of [34, Theorem 9.1.4.1].
By using differential equations (2), apparent singularities of as a function of is removable unless for some and (cf. [1, Corollary 6.3], see also [23, Lemma 6.5] and [16, Proposition 7.5]). For , if and only if . Here . Thus is defined if for all .
If for all , then forms a basis of the solution space of (2) on . Thus is a linear combination of . Since , there exists a constant such that
[TABLE]
2.4. Harish-Chandra -function
In this subsection, we review the Harish-Chandra -function. We refer to [26], [34, §9.1.6], [32, Chapter 8], and [28, §5] for details.
Let and satisfying . The leading coefficient of at infinity in is given by the Harish-Chandra -function (cf. [34, Theorem 9.1.6.1], [18, Theorem 14.7, (14.29)]):
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where the Haar measure on is normalized so that
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The integral (6) converges absolutely for and extends to a meromorphic function on . Notice that .
Define
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and . For let denote the Lie subalgebra of generated by and . Put , , , , and . For , let , and denote the analytic subgroups of corresponding to , and , respectively. We have the Iwasawa decomposition . Put . Let denote the Haar measure on normalized so that
[TABLE]
Let be the element such that . Let be a reduced expression, where denotes the length of and . Put . Then we have (cf. [17, Ch. IV Corollary 6.11]). We have the decomposition , the product map being a diffeomorphism. Moreover, there exists a positive constant such that
[TABLE]
For define
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We have the following product formula ([26, Theorem 1.2], [32, §8.11.6], [34, §9.1.6], [28, Theorem 5.1]).
Theorem 2.1**.**
.
For the case of the trivial -type , can be written explicitly by the classical Gamma function and we have the Gindikin and Karpelevič product formula for (cf. [14], see also [17, Ch IV, §6] and [34, §9.1.7]). Note that the constant in (7) is determined explicitly by the Gindikin and Karpelevič formula for .
The -function for a one-dimensional -type of a group of Hermitian type is also given explicitly by the Gamma function ([27], [29]).
In [21] we give an explicit formula of for each simple and each small -type , with one exception for of type and a certain small -type . The method we use is to relate the -elementary spherical function with the Heckman-Opdam hypergeometric function, instead of computing the integral (6) by using Theorem 2.1. Heckman [16, Chapter 5] gives in this way an explicit formula of for a one-dimensional -type when the group is of Hermitian type.
In § 3.2 we give an explicit formula of for of type and each small -type by using Theorem 2.1.
2.5. -spherical transform
Let denote the Euclidean measure on with respect to the Killing form. Define . We normalize the Haar measure on so that
[TABLE]
for any compactly supported continuous -bi-invariant function on (cf. [17, Ch. I, Theorem 5.8]).
Let be the subspace of consisting of the compactly supported smooth -spherical functions. The -spherical transform of is the -valued function on defined by
[TABLE]
The -spherical transform is a homomorphism from the commutative convolution algebra to (cf. [8]). It is a special case of the Fourier transform given by Arthur [1] (see also [6, §3]). By the identification , the -spherical transform of is given by
[TABLE]
We normalize the Haar measure on so that the Euclidean Fourier transform and its inversion are given by
[TABLE]
Let be a point in such that is a regular function of for . The existence of such follows from an explicit formula of the -function for each small -type, which is determined by [21] and §3 for . It also follows from a general result on the Harish-Chandra -function due to Cohn [10].
Let . Following [1, Chapter II, §1], define the function on by
[TABLE]
The integral (10) converges and is independent of (cf. [1, Chapter II, §1]). defined above coincides with that given by Arthur, because is -invariant in and the Harish-Chandra -function associate with a minimal parabolic subgroup in our case is given by (cf. [33, § 10.5]). The following theorem is a special case of [1, Chapter III, Theorem 3.2]. It is also a special case of [4, Theorem 1.1], since is a semisimple symmetric space for (cf. [6]).
Theorem 2.2**.**
For we have
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If is a regular function of for , then we can take and by (4) and -invariance of in , we have
[TABLE]
In [21, Corollary 7.6] we prove the formula (11) by using the inversion formula of the hypergeometric Fourier transform due to Opdam [22], under the assumption that is a small -type of a real simple which is not in the following list:
(1) ( : -dimensional irred. rep. of ,
(2) ,
(3) : irred. rep. of with h.w. ,
(3) \mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{so}(p,q)\quad(p>q\geq 3,\,\,\text{pq : odd)},
(3) : one of half spin representation of ),
(4) : Hermitian type, : one dimensional -type,
(5) , (see §3 for the definition).
Though the case (3) is not covered by [21, Corollary 7.6], the formula (11) holds in this case, since is a regular function of for as we mention in the final part of [21].
If the parameter of the small -type is “large enough” in the cases (1), (2), and (4), then has singularities in and we must take account of residues during the contour shift . The most continuous part of the spectrum is given by the right hand side of (11). In addition, there are spectra with low dimensional supports. The residue calculus in the case (4) is done by [30]. For the cases (1) and (2), and the residue calculus is easy to proceed. Also these cases are covered by the inversion formula of the Jacobi transform (cf. [12, Appendix 1], [19]). See also [11] and [31] for the case (1).
We will discuss the case (5) in the next section.
3. The case of
3.1. Notation and preliminary results
Let be the simple split real Lie algebra of type and the connected simply connected Lie group with the Lie algebra . is the double cover of the adjoint group of . Let be a maximal compact subgroup of and the Lie algebra of . Then and .
Let be a maximal abelian subalgebra of . Then is a Cartan subalgebra of . Let and denote the root system for and , respectively. Then is a root system of type . We choose a positive system so that its base contains a short compact root . The other simple root, say , is a long noncompact root. If we put then
[TABLE]
We fix an inner product on such that . Then and . We let with assuming that (resp. ) is a root for (resp. ). Let denote the projection of to .
The classification of the small -types for is given as follows:
Theorem 3.1** ([20, Theorem 1]).**
The non-trivial small -types are and . Here is the two-dimensional irreducible representation of .
A discrete series representation of is an irreducible representation of realized as a closed -invariant subspace of the left regular representation on .
Lemma 3.2**.**
Let be as above. Then no small -type appears in any discrete series representation of .
Proof.
If is the trivial -type or , then it follows from the Plancherel formula for the -spherical functions (cf. [17], [21]) that there are no discrete series representations having the -type .
Next let us discuss the case of . The positive open chamber for contains the following three open chambers for :
[TABLE]
Let be the corresponding positive systems (). Note that . If we put then
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On the other hand, Now suppose appears in a discrete series representation with Harish-Chandra parameter . We may assume for , or . Since the highest weight of is , it follows from [2, Theorem 8.5] that
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If then this reduces to
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Since , we have and , which are impossible. If or then we can also deduce a contradiction in a similar way. ∎
3.2. Harish-Chandra -function for
The restricted root system is a root system of type . For all we have , since and .
We recall the -function for . Put
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Then is a basis of and also forms an -triple. We put and for . By [27, Remark 7.3], the -function for with a one-dimensional -type of the weight for is given by
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Now we come back to the case of . For choose so that is an -triple. Put . If is a long root, then the possible weights of for are by [20, Lemma 4.2]. If is a short root, then the possible weights of for (resp. ) are (resp. ) by [20, Lemma 4.3]. Since (12) remains unchanged if we replace by , is a scalar operator for each and .
Let and denote the sets of the long and short positive roots, respectively. Define for and . It follows from Theorem 2.1, (12), and the proof of [17, Ch. IV, Theorem 6.13] that
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The value of the constant is determined by . We have by direct computation. Thus we have the following theorem.
Theorem 3.3**.**
[TABLE]
The formula for in Theorem 3.3 is a special case of the Gindikin-Karpelevič formula (cf. [14], [17, Ch. IV, Theorem 6.13]). The formula for is given in [21] by use of a different method. The formula for is new.
3.3. -spherical transform
An inversion formula for the -spherical transform is given by Theorem 2.2. We must shift the contour of integration from to and get a globally defined function on . We refer to [1, Ch. II, Ch. III] for the general residue scheme (see also [24, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]).
For and , is a regular function of for , hence the inversion formula is given by (11) for these small -types (cf. [17, Ch IV, Theorem 7.5], [21, Corollary 7.6]).
For , there appear singularities during the contour shift and we must take account of residues. The function for has singularities along lines . Figure 1 illustrates singular lines , and (dashed) for and (shaded region). Here and are the simple roots of (). These singular lines divide into the following four regions (indicated in Figure 1):
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First in (10) lies in the region I. We choose , and in the regions II, III, and IV, respectively. We may take . We shift the contour of integration from to and so on, and finally to , picking up residues. Define
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We regard as a coordinate on . Define
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For , the normalized measure on is given by
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First we change the contour of integration of from to with respect to the integration in the variable . By the explicit formula of in Theorem 3.3, has a possible simple pole during the change of the contour coming from the factor of . Thus the difference is
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for some with . Next we move to [math] along the line . Singularities coming from are on the walls and they are canceled by . Thus the integrand is regular for . Hence we have
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Similarly, we have
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By summing up and changing variables, we have
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Let . By changing variables, we have
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Since , for any by Theorem 3.3. Notice that the Harish-Chandra expansion (4) is valid for . Hence
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for .
We write the -function in Theorem 3.3 as
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with
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Notice that the functions and are -invariant.
Lemma 3.4**.**
We have
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and
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for any .
Proof.
We show only (17) because (16) can be deduced in a similar way. Since the left hand side of (17) is the residue of the as a function of at , it suffices to show (17) for . By elementary calculation we have
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Using and we calculate
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In the final expression the second factor reduces to . ∎
Thus we have the following inversion formula for -spherical transform.
Theorem 3.5**.**
For , we have
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for , where
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The Plancherel formula follows from Theorem 3.5 by a standard argument as in the case of (cf. the proof of [13, Theorem 6.4.2] and [17, Ch IV Theorem 7.5]).
Corollary 3.6**.**
For , we have
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As we see in § 3.1, no discrete spectrum appears in the inversion formula and the Plancherel formula. In addition to the most continuous spectrum, there is a contribution of a principal series representation associated with a maximal parabolic subgroup whose Levi part corresponds to a short restricted root.
Acknowledgement
The first author was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 18K03346. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for careful reading our manuscript and for giving useful comments.
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