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We prove an explicit Plancherel Formula for the parabolic subgroups of the simple Lie groups of real rank one. The key point of the formula is that the operator which compensates lack of unimodularity is given, not as a family of implicitly defined operators on the representation spaces, but rather as an explicit pseudo-differential operator on the group itself. That operator is a fractional power of the Laplacian of the center of the unipotent radical, and the proof of our formula is based on the study of its analytic properties and its interaction with the group operations.
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Partially supported by NSF Grant 33039 and a NATO fellowship
Partially supported by NSF Grant MPS74 01477
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Keene, F.W., Lipsman, R.L. & Wolf, J.A. The Plancherel Formula for parabolic subgroups. Israel J. Math. 28, 68–90 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759782
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759782