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Zbl 0535.22012
Enright, Thomas; Howe, Roger; Wallach, Nolan
A classification of unitary highest weight modules. (English)
[A] Representation theory of reductive groups, Proc. Conf., Park City/Utah 1982, Prog. Math. 40, 97-143 (1983).

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0516.00013.] \par Let G be a connected, simply connected semisimple Lie group with centre Z and let K be a closed maximal subgroup of G with K/Z compact. The paper under review contains a solution of the classification problem of unitary highest weight modules of G. \par {\it Harish-Chandra} showed [Am. J. Math. 77, 743-777 (1955; Zbl 0066.356), ibid. 78, 1-41 (1956; Zbl 0070.116)] that nontrivial such modules exists precisely when (G,K) is a Hermitian symmetric pair. Many other authors contributed to the theory. In later years for example {\it H. Rossi} and {\it M. Vergne} [Acta Math. 136, 1-59 (1976; Zbl 0356.32020)], {\it M. Kashiwara} and {\it M. Vergne} [Invent. Math. 44, 1- 47 (1978; Zbl 0375.22009)], {\it N. Wallach} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 251, 1-17 (1979; Zbl 0419.22017), ibid. 251, 19-37 (1979; Zbl 0419.22018], {\it R. Parthasarathy} [Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. 89, 1-24 (1980; Zbl 0434.22011)], {\it G. I. Ol'shanskij} [Funct. Anal. Appl. 14, 190-200 (1980; Zbl 0439.22019)], {\it H. P. Jakobsen} [Invent. Math. 62, 67-78 (1980; Zbl 0466.22016)], {\it T. Enright} and {\it R. Parthasarathy} [Lect. Notes Math. 880, 74-90 (1981; Zbl 0492.22012)]. Then around 1981 came two independent solutions to the classification problem: {\it H. P. Jakobsen} [Math. Ann. 256, 439-447 (1981; Zbl 0478.22007), and J. Funct. Anal. 52, 385-412 (1983; Zbl 0517.22014)] and T. Enright, R. Howe and N. Wallach in the paper under review. Besides relying on some of the papers mentioned above, the two solutions are different in that Jakobsen relies heavily on {\it I. N. Bernstein}, {\it I. M. Gelfand} and {\it S. I. Gelfand} [Lie Groups Represent., Proc. Summer Sch. Bolyai Janos math. Soc., Budapest 1971, 21-64 (1975; Zbl 0338.58019)], together with some interesting combinatorics. The authors' solution relies on {\it J. C. Jantzen} [Math. Ann. 226, 53-65 (1977; Zbl 0372.17003)] and on Howe's theory of dual pairs together with much case-by-case analysis. \par It seems to the reviewer that in fact both proofs when traced back through the necessary prerequisits are rather long and complicated, compared to how easy it is to describe the problem. - Anyway, this seems to be a general feature in connection with representation theory of semisimple Lie groups.
[M.Flensted-Jensen]

MSC 2000:: *22E46 Semi-simple Lie groups and their representations
43A80 Analysis on other specific Lie groups

Keywords: Verma module; invariants of the pair (G,K); unitarizability; Jantzen's formula; dual pairs; highest weight modules; Hermitian symmetric spaces

Citations: Zbl 0516.00013; Zbl 0066.356; Zbl 0070.116; Zbl 0356.32020; Zbl 0375.22009; Zbl 0419.22017; Zbl 0419.22018; Zbl 0434.22011; Zbl 0439.22019; Zbl 0466.22016; Zbl 0492.22012; Zbl 0478.22007; Zbl 0517.22014; Zbl 0338.58019; Zbl 0372.17003

Cited in: Zbl 1071.22016 Zbl 0992.22011 Zbl 0973.17017 Zbl 0861.22010 Zbl 0873.22007 Zbl 0849.22015 Zbl 0840.22020 Zbl 0759.22015 Zbl 0759.22020 Zbl 0677.22010 Zbl 0662.17008 Zbl 0636.17007

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