Special Representations of the Iwasawa Subgroups of Simple Lie Groups

Abstract

In the paper, a family of representations of maximal solvable subgroups of the simple Lie groups O(p, q), U(p, q), and Sp(p, q), where 1 ≤ p ≤ q, is introduced. These subgroups are called the Iwasawa subgroups of the corresponding simple groups. The main property of these representations is the existence of nontrivial 1-cohomology with values in the representations. For groups of rank 1, the representations from this family are unitary; for ranks greater than 1, they are nonunitary. The paper continues a series of our previous papers and serves as an introduction to the theory of nonunitary current groups.