On Euclidean space, the Fourier transform intertwines partial derivatives and coordinate multiplications. As a consequence, solutions to a constant coefficient PDE are mapped to distributions supported on the variety . 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 -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 -model for minimal representations in this context.
