Benjamin Harris, Yoshiki Oshima
Duke Math. J. 173 (14), 2729-2807, (1 October 2024) DOI: 10.1215/00127094-2023-0061
KEYWORDS: Plancherel measure, homogeneous space, the orbit method, harmonic analysis, Reductive group, 22E46
Let G be a real linear reductive group, and let H be a unimodular, locally algebraic subgroup. Let be the set of irreducible unitary representations of G contributing to the decomposition of , namely, the support of the Plancherel measure. In this paper, we will relate with the image of the moment map from the cotangent bundle .
To the homogeneous space , we attach a complex Levi subgroup of the complexification of G, and we show that in some sense “most” of the representations in are obtained as quantizations of coadjoint orbits such that and the complexification of L is conjugate to . Moreover, the union of such coadjoint orbits coincides asymptotically with the moment map image. As a corollary, we show that has a discrete series if the moment map image has a nonempty open subset of elliptic elements.