Poisson transform and unipotent complex geometry

Abstract

Our concern is with Riemannian symmetric spaces $Z=G/K$ of the non-compact type and more precisely with the Poisson transform $\mathcal{P}_λ$ which maps generalized functions on the boundary $\partial Z$ to $λ$-eigenfunctions on $Z$. Special emphasis is given to a maximal unipotent group $N 0})^r<G$ (Iwasawa) and letting the level $a\in A$ tend to $0$ on a ray we retrieve $N$ via $\lim_{a\to 0} Na$ as an open dense orbit in $\partial Z$ (Bruhat). For positive parameters $λ$ the Poisson transform $\mathcal{P}_λ$ is defined an injective for functions $f\in L^2(N)$ and we give a novel characterization of $\mathcal{P}_λ(L^2(N))$ in terms of complex analysis. For that we view eigenfunctions $ϕ= \mathcal{P}_λ(f)$ as families $(ϕ_a)_{a\in A}$ of functions on the $N$-orbits, i.e. $ϕ_a(n)= ϕ(na)$ for $n\in N$. The general theory then tells us that there is a tube domain $\mathcal{T}=N\exp(iΛ)\subset N_\mathbb{C}$ such that each $ϕ_a$ extends to a holomorphic function on the scaled tube $\mathcal{T}_a=N\exp(i\operatorname{Ad}(a)Λ)$. We define a class of $N$-invariant weight functions ${\bf w}_λ$ on the tube $\mathcal{T}$, rescale them for every $a\in A$ to a weight ${\bf w}_{λ, a}$ on $\mathcal{T}_a$, and show that each $ϕ_a$ lies in the $L^2$-weighted Bergman space $\mathcal{B}(\mathcal{T}_a, {\bf w}_{λ, a}):=\mathcal{O}(\mathcal{T}_a)\cap L^2(\mathcal{T}_a, {\bf w}_{λ, a})$. The main result of the article then describes $\mathcal{P}_λ(L^2(N))$ as those eigenfunctions $ϕ$ for which $ϕ_a\in \mathcal{B}(\mathcal{T}_a, {\bf w}_{λ, a})$ and $$\|ϕ\|:=\sup_{a\in A} a^{\operatorname{Re}λ-2ρ} \|ϕ_a\|_{\mathcal{B}_{a,λ}}<\infty$$ holds.