{ "id": "1809.06290", "version": "v1", "published": "2018-09-17T15:53:58.000Z", "updated": "2018-09-17T15:53:58.000Z", "title": "Conformally covariant bi-differential operators for differential forms", "authors": [ "Salem Ben Saïd", "Jean-Louis Clerc", "Khalid Koufany" ], "comment": "23 pages", "categories": [ "math.RT", "math.DG" ], "abstract": "The classical Rankin-Cohen brackets are bi-differential operators from $C^\\infty(\\mathbb R)\\times C^\\infty(\\mathbb R)$ into $ C^\\infty(\\mathbb R)$. They are covariant for the (diagonal) action of ${\\rm SL}(2,\\mathbb R)$ through principal series representations. We construct generalizations of these operators, replacing $\\mathbb R$ by $\\mathbb R^n,$ the group ${\\rm SL}(2,\\mathbb R)$ by the group ${\\rm SO}_0(1,n+1)$ viewed as the conformal group of $\\mathbb R^n,$ and functions by differential forms.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2018-09-17T15:53:58.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "43A85", "58J70", "22E46", "58A10" ], "keywords": [ "conformally covariant bi-differential operators", "differential forms", "principal series representations", "classical rankin-cohen brackets", "construct generalizations" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 23, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }