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K-types of a representation of the minimal Gelfand-Kirillov dimension
Let $G$ be a noncompact real simple Lie group not of Hermitian type, and $\mathfrak{g}_0$ its Lie algebra. Fix a maximal compact subgroup $K$ in $G$ with its Lie algebra $\mathfrak{k}_0$. Write $\...
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Paper request: Graev's classification of SU(2,2) irreducible unitary representations
I am interested in Graev's paper in "M. L. Graev:Dokl. Akad. Nauk SSSR,98, 517 (1954); Amer. Math. Soc. Transl.,66, 1 (1968)." in which the irreducible unitary representations of SU(2,2) are ...
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Block-diagonal embedding of $U(n)$ into $U(mn)$
What is known about the subgroup $U(n)\subset U(mn)$ for $m,n\in\mathbb{N}$ given by the diagonal embedding
$$ \alpha\mapsto \text{diag}(\alpha,\cdots, \alpha),$$
for $\alpha$ appearing $m$ times?
For ...
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A correspondence between projective representations of $G$ with those of its universal cover
Let $G$ be a connected Lie group and $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hilbert space. Let $U(\mathcal{H})$ denote the the group of all unitary operators on $\mathcal{H}$ with function composition (i.e., $\hat{U}:\...
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A reference for this statement (representations of universal central extensions)
Let $G$ be a connected Lie group with universal cover $\tilde{G}$. I would really appreciate if someone could give me a reference for the proof of the following fact:
"Every projective unitary ...
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Representation theory of spinors - Understanding how $\mathrm{SO}_3$ acts in particle physics
$\DeclareMathOperator\U{U}\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\O{O}$I have started to study particle physics, beginning with wikipedia and I am now reading David ...
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A question on projective unitary representation of a Lie group
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hilbert space and $\GL(\mathcal{H})$ denote the group of invertible linear transformations of $\mathcal{H}$. Assume that $G=\{ f:\mathbb{P}\mathcal{...
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How to build a representation of the diffeomorphism group of $U(n)$?
Given that $U(n)$ is a smooth manifold I would like to know if there is a way of building a representation of $\text{Diff}(U(n))$ once you pick a particular (finite dimensional) representation of $U(n)...
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Two definitions of intertwining operators and Harish-Chandra's Plancherel measure
I guess this question is a well-known fact to experts, but I didn't find any explicit explanation in the literature.
So let $F$ be a $p$-adic field. (There're parallel definitions and results in the ...
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Unitary dual of universal cover
The universal covering group $G$ of $\mathrm{SL}_2({\mathbb R})$ has infinite center. Is there an irreducible unitary representation $\pi$ of $G$, whose central character is injective? Or does every $\...
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Algorithm for finding the symmetries of a linear operator
$\DeclareMathOperator\Hom{Hom}\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $V, W$ be finite dimensional complex vector spaces and $M\in \Hom(V, W)$ a full rank linear map. I want to see if there exists a Lie group ...
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Real Representation ring of $U(n)$ and the adjoint representation
I have two questions:
It is well known that the complex representation ring $R(U(n))=\mathbb{Z}[\lambda_1,\cdots,\lambda_n,\lambda_n^{-1}]$, where $\lambda_1$ is the natural representation of $U(n)$ ...
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Partial sum of Weingarten functions over symmetric group
I have a question about partial sums of Weingarten functions. The Weingarten functions are defined as
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E_U[U_{i_1,j_1}\dotsm U_{i_k,j_k}U^*_{i'_1,j'_1}\dotsm U^*_{i'_k,j'_k}]=\sum_{\alpha,\beta \in \...
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The density of the image of a unitary irrep (a generalization of Burnside's theorem)
I asked the following question on MSE and never got an answer.
I am curious if there are any generalizations of Burnside's theorem (If $(\pi,V)$ is irreducible, then $\pi(G)$ spans $\operatorname{End}(...
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Bounding the dimensions of faithful representations of a quotient group
For $G$ a compact Lie group, let $\operatorname{mdfr}(G)$ be the minimum dimension of a faithful complex representation of $G$. Is there a bound on $\operatorname{mdfr}(N(H)/H)$ for $H$ a subgroup of ...
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Smallest dimension for faithful orthogonal representation
$\DeclareMathOperator\SO{SO}\DeclareMathOperator\SU{SU}$The compact simple Lie groups $\SO_8(\mathbb{R}) $ and $\SO_9(\mathbb{R}) $ both have rank 4. The group
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G=\SU_3 \times \SU_2 \times \...
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Generating $K$-types of a $(\mathfrak g,K)$-module for $K$ disconnected
Let $G$ be a real reductive Lie group, let $K$ be a maximal compact subgroup of $G$, and let $V$ be a $(\mathfrak g,K)$-module. For $\sigma\in\widehat{K}$ we denote the $\sigma$-isotypic component of $...
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Schur positivity of a polynomial
Suppose a polynomial of the form
$$\prod_i^d \sum_j^p x_i^{f_j}$$
clearly symmetric, where $f_j\in \mathbb{N}$. There is a way to find the set of $f$ numbers such that this polynomial is Schur ...
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Explicit example of an equivariant embedding of $U(n)/( U(k) \times U(n-k))$ into a finite dimensional $U(n)$-representation
We know that if $H$ is a closed subgroup of a compact Lie group $G$ one can find a finite dimensional $G$-representation $V$ and an element $v_0 \in V$ such that $\textrm{Stab}(v_0)= H$. This gives a $...
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Explicit tensor product decomposition for the representations of PSL(2,q)
$\DeclareMathOperator\PSL{PSL}$Let the type of the character theory of a finite group $G$ be the list $[[d_1,n_1], \dotsc, [d_k,n_k]]$ with $1=d_1 < \dotsb < d_k$ and $n_i$ the number of ...
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Realization of limit of discrete series using Dirac operators
I wonder if there is a geometric realization of limit of discrete series in the flavor of Atiyah-Schmid or Parthasarathy realizing discrete series using Dirac operators on G/K. I know you can see ...
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Kazhdan Property T of semisimple Lie groups
I am reading the paper [Margulis, G. A.; Nevo, A.; Stein, E. M.,
Analogs of Wiener's ergodic theorems for semisimple Lie groups. II.
Duke Math. J. 103 (2000), no. 2, 233–259] (MSN).
I want to ...
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Examples of groups admitting a proper $1$-cocyle for a bounded representation
A representation $\pi: G \to B(H)$ of a group $G$ on a Hilbert space $H$ is called bounded iff $\sup_{g \in G} \| \pi(g) \|_{B(H)} = C < \infty$. A $1$-cocycle with respect to the representation $\...
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Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula for exponential of general Hermitian operators
Let $A$ and $B$ be two anti-Hermitian operators on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space. BCH formula gives an explicit expression for $e^A e^B$ as $e^C=e^A e^B$, for $C$ in the Lie algebra generated by $...
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K-type in discrete series representation
The following result seems well known.
Let $G$ be a reductive Lie group with a maximal compact subgroup $K$. If $\mu$ is an irreducible unitary representation of $K$, then there exist only finitely ...
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Finding all unitary representations of the connected Poincaré group
I am studying representation theory of Lie groups and its combination to theoretical physics, and I am concerned about the following. Is there an exhaustive way to find all unitary representations of ...
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tensor product of massless Poincare representations
Consider two massless representations of the connected Poincare group $ISO_0(1,3)$ with helicities $s$ and $t$. What is the decomposition of their tensor product into irreducibles?
Massless ...
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Restriction that contains a trivial representation
Let $G$ be a noncompact simple Lie group, and $G'$ a noncompact reductive subgroup of $G$ such that $(G,G')$ is a symmetric pair. If $\pi$ is an infinitely dimensional unitary representation of $G$, ...
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Clebsch–Gordan decomposition for $\mathrm{SU}(2)$, in indices
Let $\pi_m$, $m \geq 0$, be the unitary irreps of $\mathrm{SU}(2)$. The Clebsch–Gordan decomposition then gives that
$$ \pi_m \otimes \pi_n = \bigoplus_{k=0}^{\min(m,n)}\pi_{m+n-2k}.$$
But suppose I ...
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Unitary dual of the complex motion group $\mathbb C^2 \rtimes SU(2)$?
The real motion group of $\mathbb R^2$, $M(2)$ is the semi-direct product of $\mathbb R^2$ with the special orthogonal group $K = SO(2)$. A well
known fact is that the unitary dual $\hat{G}$, of $G$ ...
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Number of orthogonal operators in representations of the Unitary Group
Let $G={\rm SU}(d)$ be the unitary group and $\rho(g)$ an irreducible representation of $g\in G$ in a $D$ dimensional Hilbert space $V$. Let $e_i\in V$ be the diagonal matrix whose only non-zero ...
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Fourier transform in the complex motion group
I am looking for a reference that deals with the unitary dual of the complex motion group $\mathbb C^2 \rtimes SU(2)$ i.e., the semi-direct product of $\mathbb C^2$ with the special unitary group $K=...
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Discrete decomposability of unitary representation
[INTRODUCTION]
Let $G$ be a non-compact simple Lie group, and $G'$ a reductive subgroup of $G$. Suppose that $\pi$ is a non-trivial (hence, infinite dimensional) irreducible unitary representation of ...
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Unitary dual of the motion group $M(n)$, for $n> 2$
The motion group of $\mathbb R^2$, noted by $G=M(2)$ is the semi-direct product of $\mathbb R^2$ with the special orthogonal group $K = SO(2)$. A well
known fact is that the unitary dual $\hat{G}$, of ...
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Tensor products of unitary irreducible representations of $SU(2,2)$
What is known about irreducible decomposition of tensor products of (infinite-dimensional) unitary irreducible representations of $SU(2,2)$ (or, more generally, simple groups of split rank greater ...
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Collection of matrices in $SU_{\mathbb{C}}(n)$ with given family of eigenvectors
For a given fixed matrix $M\in SU_{\mathbb{C}}(n)$, how to find all $N\in SO_{\mathbb{C}}(n)$ such that $N^{-1}MN$ is a diagonal matrix?
If we consider a fixed set of $n$ complex vectors $\Gamma:=\{...
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Principal series representations of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$: introductory textbooks [duplicate]
I am interested in introductory books/papers/reports about the (unitary) representation theory of $SL(2,\mathbb{R})$, with particular emphasis on the principal series representations. My background: I ...
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Plancherel formula for $L^2(G/N)$
Let $G$ be a connected real semisimple or reductive Lie group. Let $TA$ be a Cartan subgroup, where $T$ is compact and $A$ is split. Let $MA$ be the centralizer of $A$ in $G$, and let $N$ be the ...
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When can a finite subgroup of $GL(2n,\mathbb{R})$ be viewed as a subgroup of $GL(n,\mathbb{C})$?
A finite group acting on a complex vector space of dimension $n$ can be seen as acting on a real vector space of dimension $2n$ just by forgetting the complex structure of the space. My question is, ...
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Kirillov orbit Method for Complex nilpotent groups
Let $G$ be a nilpotent simply connected real Lie group. From the classical work of Kirillov, it is well-known that the irreducible unitary representations of $G$ are in a canonical bijective ...
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references for faithful orthogonal (or unitary) representation of symmetric groups
Let $S_n$ be the symmetric group of $n$ points. I want to find references (or proofs) for the following statement (1).
(1). There does not exist any faithful orthogonal representation
$$
S_n\...
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Does an element in the center of universal enveloping algebra becomes a scalar in irreducible representations?
I'm asking a question about Lie group representation.
Let $G$ be a Lie group, not necessarily connected. Let $\Omega$ be an element in the center of the universal enveloping algebra $U(\mathfrak{g})$ ...
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Canonical representation of $\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ on $L^2(\mathbb{R}^2)$
As a unimodular subgroup of the group of automorphisms of $\mathbb{R}^2$, $\operatorname{SL}(2,\mathbb{R})$ can be represented as a subgroup of $\mathcal{U}(L^2(\mathbb{R}^2))$ (the group of unitary ...
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How to find the unitary matrices in this exponential matrix representation
In the following post
Representing a product of matrix exponentials as the exponential of a sum
there is a statement regarding the result of the multiplication of two matrix exponentials:
if $A$ and $...
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Faithful representation of the projective unitary group with the lowest dimension?
What is the lowest dimension of a faithful ordinary representation (as compared with projective representation) of the projective unitary group $\rm{PU}(d)$? Is it $d^2-1$?
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Proper subgroups of $\rm{SU}(d)$ that act transitively on $\rm{CP}^{d-1}$?
The special unitary group $\rm{SU}(d)$ has a canonical action on the Hilbert space of dimension $d$, and this action induces a canonical action on the projective space $\rm{CP}^{d-1}$, which is ...
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Structure of the unitary representation $L^2(N/M)$ when $N$ is a nilpotent Lie group
Hi All,
I am new to this (though I seem to be a latecomer); so forgive me if this is not your most favorite question:
I am trying to understand the structure (e.g., decomposition) of the unitary ...
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comprehensive presentation of the unitary dual of $SO_0(n,1)$
The unitary dual (unitary irreducible represenations) is determined for every connected noncompact semisimple Lie group of real rank one. I would like to have a reference for the particular case $SO_0(...
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Representations of Lorentz group
Questions:
What is the connection between representation theory of complex semisimple Lie groups and representations of (maybe "proper") Lorentz groups?
Why should one read Bargmann's paper on irred. ...
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