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S. Carnahan
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a) Weyl's unitary trick implies there are no nontrivial irreducible finite dimensional unitary representations of SL(2,R). This is basically the opposite of SO(3).

b) Wikipedia has a classification of all unitary irreps. An irreducible representation given as a space of functions on H can be viewed as a massive particle state in relativistic QM on R^(1,2).

c) I think you get real-analytic Eisenstein series and discrete series. Eisenstein series form a continuous spectrum, while discrete series give modular forms. You can find more in Gelbart's book "Automorphic forms on adele groups"

d) Same thing, except the Eisenstein series involve a summation over a smaller range of cosets of translation, and the modular forms are invariant under a smaller group. I am told that the Maass forms and holomorphic forms for congruence groups that I mentioned only give a countable collection of unitary representations, while the principal series has a continuous parameter.

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