Representation of ax+b group and Dirichlet Series

Abstract

Let $G$ be the $ax+b$ group. There are essentially two irreducible infinite dimensional unitary representations of $G$, $(\mu, L^2(\mathbb R^+))$ and $(\mu^*, L^2(\mathbb R^+))$. In this paper, we give various characterizations about smooth vectors of $\mu$ and their Mellin transforms. Let $\f d$ be a linear sum of delta distributions supported on the the positive integers $\mathbb Z^+$. We study the Mellin transform of the matrix coefficients $\mu_{ \f d, f}(a)$ with $f$ smooth. We express these Mellin transforms in terms of the Dirichlet series $L(s, \f d)$. We determine a sufficient condition such that the generalized matrix coefficient $\mu_{\f d, f}$ is a locally integrable function and estimate the $L^2$-norms of $\mu_{\f d, f}$ over the Siegel set. We further derive an inequality which may potentially be used to study the Dirichlet series $L(s, \f d)$.