Conformally invariant differential operators on Heisenberg groups and minimal representations

Date/heure
14 janvier 2021
14:15 - 15:15

Oratrice ou orateur
Jan Frahm

Catégorie d'évènement
Séminaire Théorie de Lie, Géométrie et Analyse


Résumé

On Euclidean space, the Fourier transform intertwines partial derivatives and coordinate multiplications. As a consequence, solutions to a constant coefficient PDE $p(D)u=0$ are mapped to distributions supported on the variety ${p(x)=0}$. In the context of unitary representation theory of semisimple Lie groups, so-called minimal representations can often be realized on Hilbert spaces of solutions to systems of constant coefficient PDEs whose inner product is difficult to describe (the non-compact picture of a degenerate principal series). The Euclidean Fourier transform provides a new realization on a space of distributions supported on a variety where the invariant inner product is simply an $L^2$-inner product on the variety (by the work of Vergne-Rossi, Sahi, Kobayashi-à˜rsted and Möllers-Schwarz). Recently, similar systems of differential operators have been constructed on Heisenberg groups. In this talk I will explain how to use the Heisenberg group Fourier transform to obtain an $L^2$-model for minimal representations in this context.