Dimension of the space of intertwining operators from degenerate principal series representations

Abstract

Let $X$ be a homogeneous space of a real reductive Lie group $G$. It was proved by T. Kobayashi and T. Oshima that the regular representation $C^{\infty}(X)$ contains each irreducible representation of $G$ at most finitely many times if a minimal parabolic subgroup $P$ of $G$ has an open orbit in $X$, or equivalently, if the number of $P$-orbits on $X$ is finite. In contrast to the minimal parabolic case, for a general parabolic subgroup $Q$ of $G$, we find a new example that the regular representation $C^{\infty}(X)$ contains degenerate principal series representations induced from $Q$ with infinite multiplicity even when the number of $Q$-orbits on $X$ is finite.