Endomorphisms of spaces of virtual vectors fixed by a discrete group

DOI10.1070/RM9713MaRDI QIDQ2816816zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors F. Rădulescu

Publication date 25 August 2016

Published in Russian Mathematical Surveys (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0890

zbMATH Keywords

Hecke operatorstrace formulaeunitary representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hecke-Petersson operators, differential operators (one variable) (11F25) Spectral theory; trace formulas (e.g., that of Selberg) (11F72) Galois representations (11F80) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Quantizations, deformations for selfadjoint operator algebras (46L65)

Abstract: Consider a unitary representation $pi$ of a discrete group $G$, which, when restricted to an almost normal subgroup $GammasubseteqG$, is of type II. We analyze the associated unitary representation $overline{pi}^{mp}$ of $G$ on the Hilbert space of "virtual" $Gamm{a}_0$-invariant vectors, where $Gamm{a}_0$ runs over a suitable class of finite index subgroups of $Gamma$. The unitary representation $overline{pi}^{mp}$ of $G$ is uniquely determined by the requirement that the Hecke operators, for all $Gamm{a}_0$, are the "block matrix coefficients" of $overline{pi}^{mp}$. If $pi{|}_{G}amma$ is an integer multiple of the regular representation, there exists a subspace $L$ of the Hilbert space of the representation $pi$, acting as a fundamental domain for $Gamma$. In this case, the space of $Gamma$-invariant vectors is identified with $L$. When $pi{|}_{G}amma$ is not an integer multiple of the regular representation, (e.g. if $G=PGL(2,mathbbZ[frac1p])$, $Gamma$ is the modular group, $pi$ belongs to the discrete series of representations of $PSL(2,mathbbR)$, and the $Gamma$-invariant vectors are the cusp forms) we assume that $pi$ is the restriction to a subspace $H_0$ of a larger unitary representation having a subspace $L$ as above. The operator angle between the projection $P_L$ onto $L$ (typically the characteristic function of the fundamental domain) and the projection $P_0$ onto the subspace $H_0$ (typically a Bergman projection onto a space of analytic functions), is the analogue of the space of $Gamma$- invariant vectors. We prove that the character of the unitary representation $overline{pi}^{mp}$ is uniquely determined by the character of the representation $pi$.

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