Group methods in commutative harmonic analysis

Publication date 27 July 1998

adele groups commutative Banach algebras compactly generated groups harmonic analysis invariant means locally compact Abelian groups monothetic groups Plancherel and Paley-Wiener theorems positive definite functions solenoidal groups spectral theory translation invariant subspaces Wiener's Tauberian theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representations of Lie and real algebraic groups: algebraic methods (Verma modules, etc.) (22E47) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to harmonic analysis on Euclidean spaces (42-02) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to abstract harmonic analysis (43-02) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65)

Review text

This remarkable volume is an outstanding contribution to the comprehension of a widely spread mathematical subject. Its encylopaedic character makes it perfectly fitting to the overall spirit of the series. The book is essentially a translation of the 1988 Russian edition [Itogi Nauki Tekh., Ser. Sovrem. Probl. Mat. Fundam. Napravleniya 25, 4-311 (1988; Zbl 0679.43001)]. Several additions were made, for instance on spectral theory. The bibliography was also enlarged. As done before in a well-known treatise [\textit{H. Reiter}, Classical harmonic analysis and locally compact groups (Oxford, 1968; Zbl 0165.15601)], the exposition benefits from the author's choice to divide the book into two parts: 1) The classical case \(\mathbb{R}^n\), 2) locally compact Abelian groups. We mention some representative chapters: 1) Translation invariant subgroups, Plancherel and Paley-Wiener theorems, positive definite functions, Wiener's Tauberian theorem, spectral theory, 2) topological groups, Haar measure, invariant means, commutative Banach algebras, duality properties. Special structure theorems are presented: monothetic groups, solenoidal groups, compactly generated groups, adele groups. A specific feature of the volume is its ``colloquial flavour, insisting on motivations and main ideas; proofs are sketched with emphasis on key points. The book will be of interest to many mathematicians, as harmonic analysis is partaking from a wide range of specific topics. Whoever wants to get acquainted with harmonic analysis will be well rewarded by reading all the three hundred pages. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0892.00021].

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