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Multiplicity-free theorems of the restrictions of unitary highest weight modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs. (English) Zbl 1304.22013
Kobayashi, Toshiyuki (ed.) et al., Representation theory and automorphic forms. Based on the symposium, Seoul, Korea, February 14–17, 2005. Basel: Birkhäuser (ISBN 978-0-8176-4505-2/hbk). Progress in Mathematics 255, 45-109 (2008).
Summary: The complex analytic methods have found a wide range of applications in the study of multiplicity-free representations. This article discusses, in particular, its applications to the question of restricting highest weight modules with respect to reductive symmetric pairs. We present a number of multiplicity-free branching theorems that include the multiplicity-free property of some known results such as the Clebsch-Gordan-Pieri formula for tensor products, the Plancherel theorem for Hermitian symmetric spaces (also for line bundle cases), the Hua-Kostant-Schmid $$K$$-type formula, and the canonical representations in the sense of Vershik-Gelfand-Graev. Our method works in a uniform manner for both finite and infinite dimensional cases, for both discrete and continuous spectra, and for both classical and exceptional cases.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1124.11004].
Reviewer: Reviewer (Berlin)

##### MSC:
 22E46 Semisimple Lie groups and their representations 05E15 Combinatorial aspects of groups and algebras (MSC2010) 32M15 Hermitian symmetric spaces, bounded symmetric domains, Jordan algebras (complex-analytic aspects) 53C35 Differential geometry of symmetric spaces
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