Symmetry breaking operators for dual pairs with one member compact

TL;DR

This paper investigates symmetry breaking operators in dual pairs with one member compact, computing their Weyl symbols, and uses these to analyze representation weights and wavefront sets in Howe duality.

Contribution

It provides explicit calculations of symmetry breaking operators' Weyl symbols and applies these to determine representation weights and wavefront sets in the context of Howe duality.

Findings

Recovered the list of highest weights in Howe correspondence for certain ranks.

Computed wavefront sets of representations using elementary methods.

Identified the unique symmetry breaking operator for dual pairs with one compact member.

Abstract

We consider a dual pair $(G, G')$, in the sense of Howe, with G compact acting on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)$, for an appropriate $n$, via the Weil representation $\omega$. Let $\tilde{\mathrm{G}}$ be the preimage of G in the metaplectic group. Given a genuine irreducible unitary representation $\Pi$ of $\tilde{\mathrm{G}}$, let $\Pi'$ be the corresponding irreducible unitary representation of $\tilde{\mathrm{G}'}$ in the Howe duality. The orthogonal projection onto $L^2(\mathbb{R}^n)_\Pi$, the $\Pi$-isotypic component, is the essentially unique symmetry breaking operator in $\mathrm{Hom}_{\tilde{\mathrm{G}}\tilde{\mathrm{G}'}}(\mathcal{H}_\omega^{\infty}, \mathcal{H}_\Pi^{\infty}\otimes \mathcal{H}_{\Pi'}^{\infty})$. We study this operator by computing its Weyl symbol. Our results allow us to recover the known list of highest weights of irreducible representations of $\tilde{\mathrm{G}}$ occurring in Howe's correspondence when the rank of $\tilde{\mathrm{G}}$ is strictly bigger than the rank of $\tilde{\mathrm{G'}}$. They also allow us to compute the wavefront set of $\Pi'$ by elementary means.