Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society

Table of Contents - 2003 - Volume 74, Issue 02  

Research Article

Theta functions on Hermitian symmetric domains and fock representations

Min Ho Leea1

a1 Department of Mathematics University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, Iowa 50614 USA e-mail: lee@math.uni.edu

Abstract

One way of realizing representations of the Heisenberg group is by using Fock representations, whose representation spaces are Hilbert spaces of functions on complex vector space with inner products associated to points on a Siegel upper half space. We generalize such Fock representations using inner products associated to points on a Hermitian symmetric domain that is mapped into a Seigel upper half space by an equivariant holomorphic map. The representations of the Heisenberg group are then given by an automorphy factor associated to a Kuga fiber variety. We introduce theta functions associated to an equivariant holomorphic map and study connections between such generalized theta functions and Fock representations described above. Furthermore, we discuss Jacobi forms on Hermitian symmetric domains in connection with twisted torus bundles over symmetric spaces.

(Received January 30 2001)

(Revised November 08 2001)

2000 Mathematics subject classification

  • primary 22E45;
  • 11F55;
  • 11F27;
  • secondary 14K10;
  • 14K25