On Bessel integrals for reducible degenerate principal series representations

We discuss generalized Bessel integrals with nondegenerate characters, which are assigned to irreducible submodules of a reducible degenerate principal series representation of Sp(n,R). Then we give sufficient conditions for their vanishings which are based on the signatures of the nondegenerate characters. This consequently suggests a reasonable correspondence between open GLn(R)-orbits in the set of real symmetric matrices of size n and irreducible submodules of the reducible principal series representations. © 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.