H. Fujiwara et al., On the commutativity of the algebra of invariant differential operators oncertain nilpotent homogeneous spaces, T AM MATH S, 353(10), 2001, pp. 4203-4217
Let G be a simply connected connected real nilpotent Lie group with Lie alg
ebra g, H a connected closed subgroup of G with Lie algebra h and beta is a
n element of h* satisfying beta([h, h]) = {0}. Let chi (beta) be the unitar
y character of H with differential 2 root -1 pi beta at the origin. Let tau
equivalent to Ind(H)(G)chi (beta) be the unitary representation of G induc
ed from the character chi (beta) of H. We consider the algebra D (G; H, bet
a) of differential operators invariant under the action of G on the bundle
with basis H\G associated to these data. We consider the question of the eq
uivalence between the commutativity of D (G, H, beta) and the finite multip
licities of tau. Corwin and Greenleaf proved that if tau is of finite multi
plicities, this algebra is commutative. We show that the converse is true i
n many cases.