On the Helgason-Johnson bound

Abstract

Let $G$ be a simple non-compact linear Lie group. Let $\pi$ be any irreducible unitary representation of $G$ with infinitesimal character $\Lambda$ whose continuous part is $\nu$. The beautiful Helgason-Jonson bound in 1969 says that the norm of $\nu$ is upper bounded by the norm of $\rho (G)$, which stands for the half sum of the positive roots of $G$. The current paper aims to give a framework to sharpen the Helgason-Johnson bound when $\pi$ is infinite-dimensional. We have explicit results for exceptional Lie groups. Ingredients of the proof include Parathasarathy's Dirac operator inequality, Vogan pencil, and the unitarily small convex hull introduced by Salamanca-Riba and Vogan.

19 pages, Conjecture 2.1 is still open, to appear in Israel Journal of Mathematics

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