Kobayashi's associated-variety conjecture for discretely decomposable restrictions

Let GG be a real reductive group, let GG' be a reductive subgroup, and choose a maximal compact subgroup KK of GG such that K=GKK'=G'\cap K is a maximal compact subgroup of GG'. For a finite-length g\mathfrak{g}-module XX, write VgC(X)gC\mathcal{V}_{\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb C}}(X)\subseteq\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb C}^* for its associated variety, and similarly write VgC(Y)(gC)\mathcal{V}_{\mathfrak{g}'_{\mathbb C}}(Y)\subseteq(\mathfrak{g}'_{\mathbb C})^* for a finite-length g\mathfrak{g}'-module YY. Let prgg:gC(gC)\operatorname{pr}_{\mathfrak{g}\to\mathfrak{g}'}:\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb C}^*\to(\mathfrak{g}'_{\mathbb C})^* be the restriction map dual to the embedding gCgC\mathfrak{g}'_{\mathbb C}\to\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb C}. Kobayashi's conjecture. If XX is an irreducible unitarizable (g,K)(\mathfrak{g},K)-module and YY is an irreducible (g,K)(\mathfrak{g}',K')-module with Homg(Y,X)0\operatorname{Hom}_{\mathfrak{g}'}(Y,X)\neq0, then

prgg(VgC(X))=VgC(Y).\operatorname{pr}_{\mathfrak{g}\to\mathfrak{g}'}\bigl(\mathcal{V}_{\mathfrak{g}_{\mathbb C}}(X)\bigr)=\mathcal{V}_{\mathfrak{g}'_{\mathbb C}}(Y).

The conjecture predicts that the associated variety of every irreducible constituent occurring in the restriction of an irreducible unitarizable representation is obtained by projecting the associated variety of the original representation. The paper confirms it for all discretely decomposable restrictions of minimal holomorphic representations to symmetric subgroups, while the general statement remains open.

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Jan Möllers and Yoshiki Oshima, “Discrete branching laws for minimal holomorphic representations”, arXiv:1402.3351 (2014).

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