%0 Journal Article %T Homogeneous functions on light cones: the infinitesimal structure of some degenerate principal series representations %A Roger E. Howe %J Mathematics %D 1993 %I arXiv %X In this paper we study the reducibility, composition series and unitarity of the components of some degenerate principal series representations of $\RMO(p,q)$, $\RMU(p,q)$ and $\SP(p,q)$. This is done by realizing these representations in paces of homogeneous functions on light cones and writing down the explicit actions of the universal enveloping algebra of the group concerned. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9301214v1