{ "id": "2007.15312", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-07-30T08:49:41.000Z", "updated": "2020-07-30T08:49:41.000Z", "title": "Ellipticity and discrete series", "authors": [ "Bernhard Krötz", "Job J. Kuit", "Eric M. Opdam", "Henrik Schlichtkrull" ], "categories": [ "math.RT" ], "abstract": "We explain by elementary means why the existence of a discrete series representation of a real reductive group $G$ implies the existence of a compact Cartan subgroup of $G$. The presented approach has the potential to generalize to real spherical spaces.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-07-30T08:49:41.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "22E46", "22E30", "22F30" ], "keywords": [ "ellipticity", "discrete series representation", "compact cartan subgroup", "elementary means", "real reductive group" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }