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<p>In mathematics, <b>admissible representations</b> are a well-behaved class of <a href="Group_representation" title="Group representation">representations</a> used in the <a href="Representation_theory" title="Representation theory">representation theory</a> of <a href="Reductive_group" title="Reductive group">reductive</a> <a href="Lie_group" title="Lie group">Lie groups</a> and <a href="Locally_compact_group" title="Locally compact group">locally compact</a> <a href="Totally_disconnected_group" title="Totally disconnected group">totally disconnected groups</a>. They were introduced by <a href="Harish-Chandra" title="Harish-Chandra">Harish-Chandra</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Real_or_complex_reductive_Lie_groups">Real or complex reductive Lie groups</h2></div>
<p>Let <i>G</i> be a connected reductive (real or complex) Lie group. Let <i>K</i> be a maximal compact subgroup. A continuous representation (π, <i>V</i>) of <i>G</i> on a complex <a href="Hilbert_space" title="Hilbert space">Hilbert space</a> <i>V</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is called <b>admissible</b> if π restricted to <i>K</i> is <a href="Unitary_representation" title="Unitary representation">unitary</a> and each <a href="Irreducible_representation" title="Irreducible representation">irreducible</a> unitary representation of <i>K</i> occurs in it with finite multiplicity. The prototypical example is that of an irreducible unitary representation of <i>G</i>.
</p><p>An admissible representation π induces a <a href="(g%2CK)-module" title="(g,K)-module"><span class="mwe-math-element mwe-math-element-inline"><span class="mwe-math-mathml-inline mwe-math-mathml-a11y" style="display: none;"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="{\displaystyle ({\mathfrak {g}},K)}">
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Totally_disconnected_groups">Totally disconnected groups</h2></div>
<p>Let <i>G</i> be a <a href="Locally_profinite_group" title="Locally profinite group">locally compact totally disconnected group</a> (such as a reductive algebraic group over a nonarchimedean <a href="Local_field" title="Local field">local field</a> or over the finite <a href="Adele_ring" title="Adele ring">adeles</a> of a <a href="Global_field" title="Global field">global field</a>). A representation (π, <i>V</i>) of <i>G</i> on a complex vector space <i>V</i> is called <b>smooth</b> if the subgroup of <i>G</i> fixing any vector of <i>V</i> is <a href="Open_set" title="Open set">open</a>. If, in addition, the space of vectors fixed by any <a href="Compact_space" title="Compact space">compact</a> open subgroup is finite dimensional then π is called <b>admissible</b>. Admissible representations of <i>p</i>-adic groups admit more algebraic description through the action of the <a href="Hecke_algebra_of_a_locally_compact_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Hecke algebra of a locally compact group">Hecke algebra</a> of locally constant functions on <i>G</i>.
</p><p>Deep studies of admissible representations of <i>p</i>-adic reductive groups were undertaken by <a href="Bill_Casselman_(mathematician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Casselman (mathematician)">Casselman</a> and by <a href="Joseph_Bernstein" title="Joseph Bernstein">Bernstein</a> and <a href="Andrey_Zelevinsky" class="mw-redirect" title="Andrey Zelevinsky">Zelevinsky</a> in the 1970s. Progress was made more recently by <a href="Roger_Evans_Howe" title="Roger Evans Howe">Howe</a>, Moy, <a href="Gopal_Prasad" title="Gopal Prasad">Gopal Prasad</a> and Bushnell and Kutzko, who developed a <i>theory of types</i> and classified the admissible dual (i.e. the set of equivalence classes of irreducible admissible representations) in many cases.
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">I.e. a homomorphism <span class="nowrap">π : <i>G</i> → GL(<i>V</i>)</span> (where GL(<i>V</i>) is the group of <a href="Bounded_linear_operator" class="mw-redirect" title="Bounded linear operator">bounded linear operators</a> on <i>V</i> whose inverse is also bounded and linear) such that the associated map <span class="nowrap"><i>G</i> × <i>V</i> → <i>V</i></span> is continuous.</span>
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<li><cite id="CITEREFBushnellPhilip_C._Kutzko1993" class="citation book cs1">Bushnell, Colin J.; Philip C. Kutzko (1993). <i>The admissible dual of GL(N) via compact open subgroups</i>. Annals of Mathematics Studies 129. Princeton University Press. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>0-691-02114-7</bdi>.</cite></li>
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