Harmonic Analysis for Real Spherical Spaces

We give an introduction to basic harmonic analysis and representation theory for homogeneous spaces Z = G/H attached to a real reductive Lie group G. A special emphasis is made to the case where Z is real spherical.     

Affinely Prime Dynamical Systems(Dedicated to Professor Haim Brezis on the occasion of his 70th birthday)

This paper deals with representations of groups by "affine" automorphisms of compact, convex spaces, with special focus on "irreducible" representations: equivalently"minimal" actions. When the group in question is P SL(2, R), the authors exhibit a oneone correspondence between bounded harmonic functions on the upper half-plane and a certain class of irreducible representations. This analysis shows that, surprisingly, all these representations are equivalent. In fact, it is found that all irreducible affine representations of this group are equivalent. The key to this is a property called "linear Stone-Weierstrass"for group actions on compact spaces. If it holds for the "universal strongly proximal space"of the group(to be defined), then the induced action on the space of probability measures on this space is the unique irreducible affine representation of the group.     

Affinely Prime Dynamical Systems

This paper deals with representations of groups by "affine" automorphisms of compact,convex spaces,with special focus on "irreducible" representations:equivalently "minimal" actions.When the group in question is PSL(2,R),the authors exhibit a oneone correspondence between bounded harmonic functions on the upper half-plane and a certain class of irreducible representations.This analysis shows that,surprisingly,all these representations are equivalent.In fact,it is found that all irreducible affine representations of this group are equivalent.The key to this is a property called "linear Stone-Weierstrass"for group actions on compact spaces.If it holds for the "universal strongly proximal space"of the group (to be defined),then the induced action on the space of probability measures on this space is the unique irreducible affine representation of the group.     

Conformally invariant differential equations and projective geometry

We combine harmonic analysis on certain pseudo-Riemannian symmetric spaces with results on conformally invariant linear and non-linear differential equations. This gives in many cases part of the decomposition of certain representations of the conformal group of a manifold when restricted to the isometry group.     

Moduli spaces of local systems and higher Teichmüller theory

Let G be a split semisimple algebraic group over Q with trivial center. Let S be a compact oriented surface, with or without boundary. We define positive representations of the fundamental group of S to G(R), construct explicitly all positive representations, and prove that they are faithful, discrete, and positive hyperbolic; the moduli space of positive representations is a topologically trivial open domain in the space of all representations. When S have holes, we defined two moduli spaces closely related to the moduli spaces of G-local systems on S. We show that they carry a lot of interesting structures. In particular we define a distinguished collection of coordinate systems, equivariant under the action of the mapping class group of S. We prove that their transition functions are subtraction free. Thus we have positive structures on these moduli spaces. Therefore we can take their points with values in any positive semifield. Their positive real points provide the two higher Teichmüller spaces related to G and S, while the points with values in the tropical semifields provide the lamination spaces. We define the motivic avatar of the Weil–Petersson form for one of these spaces. It is related to the motivic dilogarithm.     

Moritaʼs duality for split reductive groups

In this paper, we extend the work in [Z. Qi, C. Yang, Morita?s theory for the symplectic groups, Int. J. Number Theory 7 (2011) 2115–2137 [7]] to split reductive groups. We construct and study the holomorphic discrete series representations and the principal series representations of a split reductive group G over a p-adic field F as well as a duality between certain sub-representations of these two representations.     

Geometric structure in smooth dual and local Langlands conjecture

This expository paper first reviews some basic facts about p-adic fields, reductive p-adic groups, and the local Langlands conjecture. If G is a reductive p-adic group, then the smooth dual of G is the set of equivalence classes of smooth irreducible representations of G. The representations are on vector spaces over the complex numbers. In a canonical way, the smooth dual is the disjoint union of subsets known as the Bernstein components. According to a conjecture due to ABPS (Aubert–Baum–Plymen–Solleveld), each Bernstein component has a geometric structure given by an appropriate extended quotient. The paper states this ABPS conjecture and then indicates evidence for the conjecture, and its connection to the local Langlands conjecture.     

李群表示论和Schubert条件

本文将Grassmann流形上的Schubert子簇所满足的经典的Schubert条件推广到一般的复半单李群G的广义旗流形.利用复半单李群的表示理论,我们首先在李群的权空间上引入自然的Ehresman偏序.这一偏序可以导出李群的最高权表示的权系、Weyl群及其陪集空间上的Ehresman偏序.然后我们对一般的复表示定义了相应的射影空间,Grassmann流形和旗流形.这使得能够像经典的情形一样来分析广义旗流形的Schubert子簇满足的Schubert条件.在讨论中,我们还给出了李群G的Weyl群及其陪集空间中的Bruhat-Chevalley偏序的简单判别条件.我们的结果应用到例外群,给出了Fulton提出的关于例外群的Schubert分析的问题的部分回答.     

Mathematical problems of stochastic quantum mechanics: Harmonic analysis on phase space and quantum geometry

In this paper we review the mathematical methods and problems that are specific to the programme of stochastic quantum mechanics and quantum spacetime. The physical origin of these problems is explained, and then the mathematical models are developed. Three notions emerge as central to the programme: positive operator-valued (POV) measures on a Hilbert space, reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, and fibre bundle formulations of quantum geometries. A close connection between the first two notions is shown to exist, which provides a natural setting for introducing a fibration on the associated overcomplete family of vectors. The introduction of group covariance leads to an extended version of harmonic analysis on phase space. It also yields a theory of induced group representations, which extends the results of Mackey on imprimitivity systems for locally compact groups to the more general case of systems of covariance. Quantum geometries emerge as fibre bundles whose base spaces are manifolds of mean stochastic locations for quantum test particles (i.e., spacetime excitons) that display a phase space structure, and whose fibres and structure groups contain, respectively, the aforementioned overcomplete families of vectors and unitary group representations of phase space systems of covariance.Work supported in part by the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) grants.     

Complexity of Homogeneous Spaces and Growth of Multiplicities

The complexity of a homogeneous space G/H under a reductive group G is by definition the codimension of general orbits in G/H of a Borel subgroup B\subseteq G. We give a representation-theoretic interpretation of this number as the exponent of growth for multiplicities of simple G-modules in the spaces of sections of homogeneous line bundles on G/H. For this, we show that these multiplicities are bounded from above by the dimensions of certain Demazure modules. This estimate for multiplicities is uniform, i.e., it depends not on G/H, but only on its complexity.     

Harmonic analysis on spherical homogeneous spaces with solvable stabilizer

For all spherical homogeneous spaces G/H, where G is a simply connected semisimple algebraic group and H a connected solvable subgroup of G, we compute the spectra of representations of G on spaces of regular sections of homogeneous line bundles over G/H.     

Spectral representation of intrinsically stationary fields

Transferring the concept of processes with weakly stationary increments to arbitrary locally compact Abelian groups two closely related notions arise: while intrinsically stationary random fields can be seen as a direct analog of intrinsic random functions of order k$k$ applied by G. Matheron in geostatistics, stationarizable random fields arise as a natural analog of definitizable functions in harmonic analysis. We concentrate on intrinsically stationary random fields related to finite-dimensional, translation-invariant function spaces, establish an orthogonal decomposition of random fields of this type, and present spectral representations for intrinsically stationary as well as stationarizable random fields using orthogonal vector measures.     

Filtration de certains espaces de fonctions sur un espace symétrique réductif

We introduce a filtration of a -module of some space of functions on a reductive symmetric space G/H, and compute the associated grading as a direct sum of induced representations. As an application of this result to the reductive groups viewed as symmetric spaces, we are able to realize any Harish-Chandra module as a subquotient of a direct sum of induced representations from parabolic subgroups, the inducing representations being trivial on the unipotent radical.