Coadjoint geometry for discretely decomposable restrictions of certain series of representations of indefinite unitary groups

Abstract

Zuckerman’s derived functor module of a semisimple Lie group [Formula: see text] yields a unitary representation [Formula: see text] which may be regarded as a geometric quantization of an elliptic orbit [Formula: see text] in the Kirillov–Kostant–Duflo orbit philosophy. We highlight a certain family of those irreducible unitary representations [Formula: see text] of the indefinite unitary group [Formula: see text] and a family of subgroups [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] such that the restriction [Formula: see text] is known to be discretely decomposable and multiplicity-free by the general theory of Kobayashi (Discrete decomposibility of the restrictions of [Formula: see text] with respect to reductive subgroups, II, Ann. of Math. 147 (1998) 1–21; Multiplicity-free representations and visible action on complex manifolds, Publ. Res. Inst. Math. Sci. 41 (2005) 497–549), where [Formula: see text] is not necessarily tempered and [Formula: see text] is not necessarily compact. We prove that the corresponding moment map [Formula: see text] is proper, determine the image [Formula: see text], and compute the Corwin–Greenleaf multiplicity function explicitly.