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Meromorphic continuation and intertwining identity for A(nu)
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice (The Axiom of Choice). Let , and let and its eigenvalues be as in The standard intertwining operator A(nu) and K-type eigenvalues of A(nu): recurrence, closed form and nonvanishing.
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(Meromorphic continuation.) Each eigenvalue extends to a meromorphic function on , with no zeros outside the exceptional lattice ; the family has a unique meromorphic continuation in as a family of continuous -diagonal maps on the smooth compact-picture spaces.
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(Intertwining identity.) For every at which the continuation is regular, on smooth compact-picture vectors (and therefore on the algebraic -finite core where its derived action is defined). If and both and are regular, then is the scalar on every -type of parity , where for and for . At these parameters, satisfies and , where .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, , the normalized smooth principal-series models, and the standard integral on its initial half-plane .
For , is the absolutely convergent integral over of The standard intertwining operator A(nu); its right-translation action is the smooth compact-picture action The normalized principal series I(epsilon, nu), The compact picture of the SL2(R) principal series. The full-family continuation left open in the Definition is not assumed here; it is proved below.
For every , the eigenvalue has the meromorphic Gamma expression, cross-multiplied recurrence, and symmetry in K-type eigenvalues of A(nu): recurrence, closed form and nonvanishing. Gamma has simple poles at the nonpositive integers, no zeros, and reciprocal Gamma is entire with simple zeros exactly at those poles, as used in that supplier.
The compact picture identifies smooth vectors with , whose K-types are for ; in this angle coordinate normalized Haar measure is (The compact picture of the SL2(R) principal series, K-type decomposition of the SL2(R) principal series, Iwasawa and minimal-parabolic data for SL2(R), The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral).
AC supplies countable choice, which is the countable-choice premise of complex integration by parts and the Cauchy integral estimates (AC supplies the countable and dependent choices used in Banach integration, The Axiom of Choice).
The usual modulus makes a complex normed space (Real and complex scalar conventions for normed spaces, Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, , and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive); its norm metric is (The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane), which is complete (The complex plane is complete, and convergence is equivalent to convergence of real and imaginary parts), so is a complex Banach space by Banach space. The Banach-valued Cauchy theorem therefore gives Taylor expansions and coefficient estimates for scalar holomorphic functions on discs (Cauchy integral formula and Cauchy estimates for Banach-valued holomorphic functions).
Complex integration by parts on a period interval gives rapid decay of Fourier coefficients of a smooth periodic function (Complex integration by parts on intervals and decaying lines). The Weierstrass M-test, uniform derivative-limit theorem, and convergence of justify uniform convergence and termwise angular differentiation (Weierstrass M-test for complex-valued function series, If continuously differentiable functions converge at one point and their derivatives converge uniformly on a closed interval, then the functions converge uniformly to a differentiable function whose derivative is the derivative limit, For rational , converges iff ).
The smooth compact-picture action is differentiable in the real Lie-algebra directions with the displayed ladder operators, and the ordinary real product and chain rules apply (Derived action and raising/lowering formulas in the compact picture, Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: , , , and when , The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if is differentiable at and is differentiable at , then is differentiable at with ).
Every group element has a factorization; the factors are generated by the one-parameter subgroups from , , and (Iwasawa decomposition and Haar integration formula for SL2(R), Iwasawa and minimal-parabolic data for SL2(R)).
Two holomorphic functions on a connected complex domain that agree on a nonempty open set agree throughout the domain (Identity theorem for holomorphic functions).
A real-valued function continuous on an interval and differentiable with zero derivative at every interior point is constant there (A function continuous on an interval whose derivative vanishes at every interior point of is constant on ; consequently two such functions with the same derivative differ by a constant).
Holomorphic functions are continuous (Complex differentiability at a point implies continuity there), and a continuous real-valued function on a compact metric space is bounded and attains its maximum (A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value).
AC supplies normalized Haar probability on for the compact Fourier coefficients and implies the countable-choice premises of [F4]–[F6]; no additional choice is used (The Axiom of Choice, Iwasawa and minimal-parabolic data for SL2(R), [F4]).
Proof
For , write the Gamma expression from [F2] as . Its numerator has no zeros and only simple poles at nonpositive integers. The denominator contributes zeros only when or for some , and each such parameter belongs to ; hence has no zeros outside that lattice. At a possible numerator pole , if the denominator arguments are half-integers and do not cancel the simple pole; if , the two denominator arguments are integers with at least one nonpositive, so a reciprocal-Gamma zero cancels the numerator pole. Thus all scalar poles are simple and lie in the locally finite set .
For each center , choose so that the closed disc has boundary disjoint from and its intersection with is either empty or ; this is possible because is locally finite. Put if and if . Every is holomorphic on a neighbourhood of by step 1.1. Let , so on by the triangle inequality for the complex modulus. Choose a nonnegative in the parity lattice so large that for every , and choose an integer . The cross-multiplied recurrence in [F2], with multiplied into both sides, gives for and ; the denominator here is the scalar , and no division by is used. Since is bounded on , iteration bounds by a constant times , where is the number of recurrence steps from to ; hence uniformly. The finitely many smaller indices are bounded by holomorphy, and negative indices obey the same estimate by the symmetry in [F2].
Using the angular Haar normalization in [F3], put . For every positive integer , periodicity removes the boundary terms in [F6], giving for , where . For each derivative order , take ; integration by parts gives and the differentiated Fourier terms are bounded by . The M-test and p-series fact [F6], applied separately to the positive and negative parity tails, give uniform convergence of the input Fourier series and every derivative series. The uniform derivative-limit theorem applied successively to real and imaginary parts shows these limits are the derivatives of the sum; their Fourier coefficients match those of and its derivatives, so completeness in [F3] and continuity identify them with those functions. Hence Fourier partial sums converge to in every seminorm. Next, for each angular derivative order , choose in step 2.1; the differentiated terms of are bounded by . Applying the M-test separately to the positive and negative parity tails gives uniform convergence on the circle, locally uniformly in , for this multiplier series and every angular derivative; applying the uniform derivative-limit theorem to real and imaginary parts shows its sum is smooth and the derivatives are the termwise derivatives. In particular each regular defined by this series is a continuous linear map , with each output seminorm bounded by a constant times one input seminorm.
The same polynomial bound makes the meromorphic family holomorphic in the smooth topology after multiplication by . Choose concentric parameter discs with and closed radius- disc contained in the neighbourhood from step 2.1. Cauchy's coefficient estimate [F5] gives Taylor coefficients of at with . For each , the Fourier multiplier is smooth by the argument of step 3.1 and satisfies . Therefore, on every smaller closed parameter disc of radius , converges in every seminorm, uniformly for in bounded subsets of . Its Fourier coefficients are the holomorphic values ; for regular , completeness in [F3] makes the sum equal to , and its value at is the removable extension when (and the ordinary value otherwise). This is the required local power-series definition of a meromorphic family of continuous K-diagonal maps on .
On , the operator from [F1] agrees with the Fourier multiplier in step 3.1: they agree on finite Fourier sums by [F2], and for a general smooth its Fourier partial sums converge uniformly by step 3.1 while the compact-picture integral satisfies , since for the bottom-row norm in the integral is and is integrable. Thus the series is a continuation of the stated integral. Any other meromorphic K-diagonal continuation has on each K-type a scalar meromorphic coefficient agreeing with on this open half-plane; clearing local pole factors and applying [F9] on connected parameter discs makes the coefficients equal as meromorphic functions. The two continuous operators then agree on finite Fourier sums and, by the density from step 3.1, on all of , proving uniqueness.
The recurrence in [F2], interpreted cross-multiplied at zero denominators, gives on every allowed K-type; the same recurrence at index gives the identity, and K-diagonality gives the identity. These are meromorphic scalar equalities, so they hold at every regular parameter. By linearity they hold for the real generators on finite Fourier sums; their operators are continuous on by [F7], and step 3.1 gives density of Fourier sums in that topology, so the derived intertwining identities hold on all smooth vectors.
Fix a real generator and a smooth . The smooth orbit maps, continuity of from step 3.1, and the real chain rule [F7] make continuous and differentiable in every smooth seminorm. Its derivative is by step 4.3. Evaluation at each gives a complex-valued function of whose real and imaginary parts satisfy [F10], so pointwise. Therefore . Each element of is by [F8], with generated by these one-parameter subgroups, so the asserted -intertwining identity follows by multiplying the three factor identities.
Suppose and both and are regular. Then and are nonzero for every . Applying the recurrence at and gives ; the symmetry handles negative indices. Hence the product is independent of and equals , with in even parity and in odd parity. Continuity and density from step 3.1 extend this K-type calculation to the composite operator on smooth vectors. The base eigenvalues are finite and nonzero at these regular parameters by step 1.1, so dividing each factor by its base eigenvalue gives and .
Depends on
- The standard intertwining operator A(nu)
- The normalized principal series I(epsilon, nu)
- The compact picture of the SL2(R) principal series
- K-type decomposition of the SL2(R) principal series
- Derived action and raising/lowering formulas in the compact picture
- K-type eigenvalues of A(nu): recurrence, closed form and nonvanishing
- The Axiom of Choice
- AC supplies the countable and dependent choices used in Banach integration
- Iwasawa decomposition and Haar integration formula for SL2(R)
- Iwasawa and minimal-parabolic data for SL2(R)
- Sums, scalar multiples, products and quotients: $(f+g)'(c) = f'(c) + g'(c)$, $(\alpha f)'(c) = \alpha f'(c)$, $(fg)'(c) = f'(c)g(c) + f(c)g'(c)$, and $(f/g)'(c) = \bigl(f'(c)g(c) - f(c)g'(c)\bigr)/g(c)^{2}$ when $g(c) \ne 0$
- The chain rule, in one line from Carathéodory: if $g$ is differentiable at $c$ and $f$ is differentiable at $g(c)$, then $f \circ g$ is differentiable at $c$ with $(f \circ g)'(c) = f'(g(c))\,g'(c)$
- Complex integration by parts on intervals and decaying lines
- Weierstrass M-test for complex-valued function series
- If continuously differentiable functions converge at one point and their derivatives converge uniformly on a closed interval, then the functions converge uniformly to a differentiable function whose derivative is the derivative limit
- For rational $p > 0$, $\sum 1/k^p$ converges iff $p > 1$
- Cauchy integral formula and Cauchy estimates for Banach-valued holomorphic functions
- Real and complex scalar conventions for normed spaces
- Conjugation is an involutive real-field automorphism, $z\overline z=|z|^2$, and modulus is definite, multiplicative, and subadditive
- The Euclidean metric, convergence, Cauchy sequences, and continuity on the complex plane
- The one-dimensional torus and its normalized Haar integral
- A continuous real-valued function on a nonempty compact metric space is bounded and attains a greatest and a least value
- Complex differentiability at a point implies continuity there
- The complex plane is complete, and convergence is equivalent to convergence of real and imaginary parts
- Banach space
- Identity theorem for holomorphic functions
- A function continuous on an interval $I$ whose derivative vanishes at every interior point of $I$ is constant on $I$; consequently two such functions with the same derivative differ by a constant
Used by
- The spherical complementary series converge to the trivial representation Corollary
- Parameter-sign equivalence and its exceptional failures for SL2(R) Theorem
- Unitarity of the complementary series Theorem
Cited to discharge well-definedness by The standard intertwining operator A(nu).
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Sources
- Pavel Etingof, Representations of Lie Groups (MIT 18.757 lecture notes, Fall 2023) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Matt Kerr, Notes on the Representation Theory of SL2(R) (CBMS workshop writeup) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Emmanuel Kowalski, An Introduction to the Representation Theory of Groups (AMS GSM 155; author's PDF) (standard reference, not scraped)