Eigenfunction asymptotics in the complex domain for a compact Lie group

Abstract

Let $(G,\hat{I}º)$ be a compact connected Lie group endowed with a biinvariant Riemannian metric, and let $\tilde{G}$ be the complexification of $G$. We apply Grauert tube techniques to the near-diagonal scaling asymptotics of certain operator kernels, which are defined in terms of the matrix elements of an irreducuble representation drifting to infinity along a ray in weight space. These kernels are the equivariant components of Poisson and Szegő kernels on a fixed sphere bundle in $\tilde{G}$, when the latter is identified with the tangent bundle of $G$ in an appropriate way.

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