Branching problem for tensoring two Verma modules and its application to differential symmetry breaking operators

Abstract

Kobayashi–Pevzner discovered in [Differential symmetry breaking operators: II. Rankin–Cohen operators for symmetric pairs, Selecta Math. (N.S.) 22(2) (2016) 847–911, MR 3477337] that the failure of the multiplicity-one property in the fusion rule of Verma modules of [Formula: see text] occurs exactly when the Rankin–Cohen brackets vanish, and classified all the corresponding parameters. In this paper, we provide yet another characterization for these parameters, and give a precise description of indecomposable components of the tensor product. Furthermore, we discuss when the tensor products of two Verma modules are isomorphic to each other for semisimple Lie algebras [Formula: see text].