Harmonic analysis for real spherical spaces

Abstract

We give an introduction to basic harmonic analysis and representation theory for homogeneous spaces $Z=G/H$ attached to a real reductive Lie group $G$. A special emphasis is made to the case where $Z$ is real spherical.Comment: Shortened title, typos fixed, more details on dual smooth Frobenius reciprocity (now Lemma 6.6). 38 pages, lecture notes for the Sanya meeting on spherical varieties. To appear in Acta Math. Sinic