ISSN:
1089-7658
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Mathematics
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Physics
Notes:
It is shown that the canonical representation space of Gel'fand and co-workers is particularly appropriate for problems requiring explicit reduction under the noncompact SO(1,1) and E(1) bases for both the principal and exceptional series of representations of SL(2,R). We use this realization to set up complete orthonormal sets of eigendistributions corresponding to the three subgroup reductions, namely, SL(2,R)&supuline;SO(1,1), SL(2,R)&supuline;E(1), and SL(2,R)&supuline;SO(2), and evaluate the unitary transformations connecting these reductions. These overlap matrix elements appear as the applications of these distributions to a set of well-defined test functions. Using the rigorous theory of analytic continuation we show that the results for the exceptional representations have the same analytic forms as the corresponding results for the principal series. Some of these results are essential prerequisites for the solution of the Clebsch–Gordan problem (series and coefficients) of SL(2,R) in the SO(1,1) basis.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.526799
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