A mean value theorem on bounded symmetric domains

Let be a Cartan domain of rank and genus and , , the Berezin transform on ; the number can be interpreted as a certain invariant-mean-value of a function around . We show that a Lebesgue integrable function satisfying , , must be -harmonic. In a sense, this result is reminiscent of Delsarte's two-radius mean-value theorem for ordinary harmonic functions on the complex -space , but with the role of radius played by the quantity .

     

On the derivatives of the Berezin transform

Improving upon a recent result of L. Coburn and J. Xia, we show that for any bounded linear operator on the Segal-Bargmann space, the Berezin transform of is a function whose partial derivatives of all orders are bounded. Similarly, if is a bounded operator on any one of the usual weighted Bergman spaces on a bounded symmetric domain, then the appropriately defined ``invariant derivatives' of any order of the Berezin transform of are bounded. Further generalizations are also discussed.

     

Hua operators and Poisson transform for bounded symmetric domains

Let Ω be a bounded symmetric domain of non-tube type in Cn with rank r and S its Shilov boundary. We consider the Poisson transform Psf(z) for a hyperfunction f on S defined by the Poisson kernel Ps(z,u)=s(h(z,z)^n/r/²|h(z,u)^n/r|), (z,u)×Ω×S, s∈C. For all s satisfying certain non-integral condition we find a necessary and sufficient condition for the functions in the image of the Poisson transform in terms of Hua operators. When Ω is the type I matrix domain in Mn,m(C) (n?m), we prove that an eigenvalue equation for the second order Mn,n-valued Hua operator characterizes the image.     

Berezin Transform for Solvable Groups

We study the Berezin transform in the context of solvable groups AN (acting on homogeneous cones and Siegel domains) and determine its spectral decomposition, using an explicit integral kernel representation for the associated eigen-operators in terms of multivariable hypergeometric functions.     

The Cayley transform and uniformly bounded representations

Let G be a simple Lie group of real rank one, with Iwasawa decomposition and Bruhat big cell . Then the space may be (almost) identified with N and with K/M, and these identifications induce the (generalised) Cayley transform . We show that is a conformal map of Carnot-Caratheodory manifolds, and that composition with the Cayley transform, combined with multiplication by appropriate powers of the Jacobian, induces isomorphisms of Sobolev spaces and . We use this to construct uniformly bounded and slowly growing representations of G.     

Invariant Differential Operators on Symmetric Cones and Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

We give a brief survey on the study of constructions of invariant differential operators on Riemannian symmetric spaces and of combinatorial and analytical properties of their eigenvalues, and pose some open questions.     

Branching laws for minimal holomorphic representations

In this paper we study the branching law for the restriction from SU(n,m) to SO(n,m) of the minimal representation in the analytic continuation of the scalar holomorphic discrete series. We identify the group decomposition with the spectral decomposition of the action of the Casimir operator on the subspace of S(O(n)×O(m))-invariants. The Plancherel measure of the decomposition defines an L²-space of functions, for which certain continuous dual Hahn polynomials furnish an orthonormal basis. It turns out that the measure has point masses precisely when n−m>2. Under these conditions we construct an irreducible representation of SO(n,m), identify it with a parabolically induced representation, and construct a unitary embedding into the representation space for the minimal representation of SU(n,m).     

Laplace and Segal-Bargmann transforms on Hermitian symmetric spaces and orthogonal polynomials

Let be a complex bounded symmetric domain of tube type in a complex Jordan algebra V and let be its real form in a formally real Euclidean Jordan algebra J⊂V; is a bounded realization of the symmetric cone in J. We consider representations of H that are gotten by the generalized Segal-Bargmann transform from a unitary G-space of holomorphic functions on to an L²-space on . We prove that in the unbounded realization the inverse of the unitary part of the restriction map is actually the Laplace transform. We find the extension to of the spherical functions on and find their expansion in terms of the L-spherical polynomials on , which are Jack symmetric polynomials. We prove that the coefficients are orthogonal polynomials in an L²-space, the measure being the Harish-Chandra Plancherel measure multiplied by the symbol of the Berezin transform. We prove the difference equation and recurrence relation for those polynomials by considering the action of the Lie algebra and the Cayley transform on the polynomials on . Finally, we use the Laplace transform to study generalized Laguerre functions on symmetric cones.     

Analytic models for commuting operator tuples on bounded symmetric domains

For a domain in and a Hilbert space of analytic functions on which satisfies certain conditions, we characterize the commuting -tuples of operators on a separable Hilbert space  such that is unitarily equivalent to the restriction of to an invariant subspace, where is the operator -tuple on the Hilbert space tensor product  . For the unit disc and the Hardy space , this reduces to a well-known theorem of Sz.-Nagy and Foias; for a reproducing kernel Hilbert space on such that the reciprocal of its reproducing kernel is a polynomial in and  , this is a recent result of Ambrozie, Müller and the second author. In this paper, we extend the latter result by treating spaces for which ceases to be a polynomial, or even has a pole: namely, the standard weighted Bergman spaces (or, rather, their analytic continuation) on a Cartan domain corresponding to the parameter in the continuous Wallach set, and reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces for which is a rational function. Further, we treat also the more general problem when the operator is replaced by ,  being a certain generalization of a unitary operator tuple. For the case of the spaces on Cartan domains, our results are based on an analysis of the homogeneous multiplication operators on , which seems to be of an independent interest.

     

Reduced Weyl asymptotics for pseudodifferential operators on bounded domains I. The finite group case

Let G⊂O(n) be a compact group of isometries acting on n-dimensional Euclidean space Rn, and X a bounded domain in Rn which is transformed into itself under the action of G. Consider a symmetric, classical pseudodifferential operator A₀ in L²(Rn) with G-invariant Weyl symbol, and assume that it is semi-bounded from below. We show that the spectrum of the Friedrichs extension A of the operator is discrete, and derive asymptotics for the number Nχ(λ) of eigenvalues of A less or equal λ and with eigenfunctions in the χ-isotypic component of L²(X) as λ→∞, giving also an estimate for the remainder term in case that G is a finite group. In particular, we show that the multiplicity of each unitary irreducible representation in L²(X) is asymptotically proportional to its dimension.     

Polynomial Quantization on Rank One Para-Hermitian Symmetric Spaces

We construct the polynomial quantization on the space G/H where G=SL(n,R),H=GL(n–1,R). It is a variant of quantization in the spirit of Berezin. In our case covariant and contravariant symbols are polynomials on G/H. We introduce a multiplication of covariant symbols, establish the correspondence principle, study transformations of symbols (the Berezin transform) and of operators. We write a full asymptotic decomposition of the Berezin transform.     

Berezin Quantization and Reproducing Kernels on Complex Domains

Let be a non-compact complex manifold of dimension , a Kähler form on , and the reproducing kernel for the Bergman space of all analytic functions on square-integrable against the measure . Under the condition

F. A. Berezin [Math. USSR Izvestiya 8 (1974), 1109--1163] was able to establish a quantization procedure on which has recently attracted some interest. The only known instances when the above condition is satisfied, however, are just and a bounded symmetric domain (with the euclidean and the Bergman metric, respectively). In this paper, we extend the quantization procedure to the case when the above condition is satisfied only asymptotically, in an appropriate sense, as . This makes the procedure applicable to a wide class of complex Kähler manifolds, including all planar domains with the Poincaré metric (if the domain is of hyperbolic type) or the euclidean metric (in the remaining cases) and some pseudoconvex domains in . Along the way, we also fix two gaps in Berezin's original paper, and discuss, for a domain in , a variant of the quantization which uses weighted Bergman spaces with respect to the Lebesgue measure instead of the Kähler-Liouville measure .