Small principal series and exceptional duality for two simply laced exceptional groups

Salmasian, Hadi

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04530-3

Small principal series and exceptional duality for two simply laced exceptional groups

Author: Hadi Salmasian
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 361 (2009), 1925-1947
MSC (2000): Primary 22E46, 22E50, 11F27
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-08-04530-3
Published electronically: October 21, 2008
MathSciNet review: 2465824
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Abstract: We use the notion of rank defined in an earlier paper (2007) to introduce and study two correspondences between small irreducible unitary representations of the split real simple Lie groups of types $\mathbf E_n$ , where $n\in\{6,7\}$ , and two reductive classical groups. We show that these correspondences classify all of the unitary representations of rank two (in the sense of our earlier paper) of these exceptional groups. We study our correspondences for a specific family of degenerate principal series representations in detail.

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