Analysis of the Brylinski-Kostant model for spherical minimal representations

Abstract: We revisit with another view point the construction by R. Brylinski and B. Kostant of minimal representations of simple Lie groups. We start from a pair $(V,Q)$, where $V$ is a complex vector space and $Q$ a homogeneous polynomial of degree 4 on $V$. The manifold $\Xi $ is an orbit of a covering of ${\rm Conf}(V,Q)$, the conformal group of the pair $(V,Q)$, in a finite dimensional representation space. By a generalized Kantor-Koecher-Tits construction we obtain a complex simple Lie algebra $\goth g$, and furthermore a real form ${\goth g}{\bboard R}$. The connected and simply connected Lie group $G{\bboard R}$ with ${\rm Lie}(G_{\bboard R})={\goth g}_{\bboard R}$ acts unitarily on a Hilbert space of holomorphic functions defined on the manifold $\Xi $