On the non-vanishing of Poincaré series on irreducible bounded symmetric domains
Sonja Žunar
TL;DR
The paper develops a vector-valued non-vanishing criterion for Poincaré series on irreducible bounded symmetric domains, connecting holomorphic automorphic forms of polynomial type to K-finite matrix coefficients of integrable discrete series via a precise lift. Using Harish-Chandra realization and explicit holomorphic/discrete series, it establishes an isomorphism between spaces of holomorphic automorphic forms and weight components in L^2 of the quotient, then applies Muić’s integral non-vanishing criterion to obtain concrete conditions ensuring non-vanishing of Poincaré series. The main result provides a verifiable inequality on the F_f lift over a suitable S subset of the positive Weyl chamber, guaranteeing nontrivial automorphic Poincaré series and their lifts for finite-covolume subgroups. The AIII (SU(p,q)) specialization yields explicit non-vanishing thresholds N_0 for arithmetic subgroups, with determinant-based Poincaré series and practical computations illustrated for small ranks, highlighting the method’s applicability to explicit families of automorphic forms.
Abstract
Let $ \mathcal D\equiv G/K $ be an irreducible bounded symmetric domain. Using a vector-valued version of Muić's integral non-vanishing criterion for Poincaré series on locally compact Hausdorff groups, we study the non-vanishing of holomorphic automorphic forms on $ \mathcal D $ that are given by Poincaré series of polynomial type and correspond via the classical lift to the Poincaré series of certain $ K $-finite matrix coefficients of integrable discrete series representations of $ G $. We provide an example application of our results in the case when $ G=\mathrm{SU}(p,q) $ and $ K=\mathrm S(\mathrm U(p)\times\mathrm U(q)) $ with $ p\geq q\geq1 $.
