Restricting holomorphic discrete series representations to a compact dual pair

Abstract

The goal of this article is to study the branching problem for a holomorphic discrete series representation of the conformal group of a simple Euclidean Jordan algebra $V$ restricted to the subgroup ${\mathrm{PSL}}_2(\mathbb{R})\times \mathrm{Aut}(V)$ where $\mathrm{Aut}(V)$ denotes the compact group of automorphisms of $V$. We use a realization of the holomorphic discrete series on a space of vector-values $L^2$-functions as well as the stratified model developed by the second author to relate the branching problem to the decomposition of certain representations of the compact group $\mathrm{Aut}(V)$ and to vector-valued orthogonal polynomials.

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