Classification of differential symmetry breaking operators for differential forms

Abstract

We give a complete classification of conformally covariant differential operators between the spaces of differential $i$-forms on the sphere $S^n$ and $j$-forms on the totally geodesic hypersphere $S^{n-1}$ by analyzing the restriction of principal series representations of the Lie group $O(n+1,1)$. Further, we provide explicit formulæ for these matrix-valued operators in the flat coordinates and find factorization identities for them.

This note was published in C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I, (2016), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crma.2016.04.012