Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Lie Theory 19 (2009), No. 4, 671--683Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2009 A Note on Howe Duality Correspondence and Isotropy Representations for Unitary Lowest Weight Modules of Mp(n,R) Noriyuki Abe Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153--8914, Japan abenori@ms.u-tokyo.ac.jp Hiroshi Yamashita Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, N10 W8 Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan yamasita@math.sci.hokudai.ac.jp [Abstract-pdf] We give a new proof of the Howe duality theorem for the reductive dual pair $({\rm Sp}(n,\mathbb{R}), {\rm O}(k))$ by using the isotropy representations for unitary lowest weight modules of the metaplectic group ${\rm Mp}(n,\mathbb{R})$. The irreducible representations of $O(k)$ appearing in the Howe duality correspondence are specified explicitly by means of the branching rule of the representations of O$(k)$ restricted to orthogonal groups of smaller size. Keywords: Metaplectic group, lowest weight module, Howe duality theorem, branching rule, Harish Chandra modules. MSC: 17B10, 22E45, 22E46 [ Fulltext-pdf  (225  KB)] for subscribers only.