Infinite Dimensional Multiplicity Free Spaces II: Limits of Commutative Nilmanifolds

MaRDI QIDQ3181828zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Joseph A. Wolf

Publication date 12 October 2009

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.3866

zbMATH Keywords

commutative nilmanifoldcommutative spacedirect limitGelfand pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Harmonic analysis on homogeneous spaces (43A85)

Abstract: We study direct limits $(G,K)=varinjlim(G_n,K_n)$ of Gelfand pairs of the form $G_n=N_{n}times{K}_n$ with $N_n$ nilpotent, in other words pairs $(G_n,K_n)$ for which $G_n/K_n$ is a commutative nilmanifold. First, we extend the criterion of cite{W3} for a direct limit representation to be multiplicity free. Then we study direct limits $G/K=varinjlim{G}_n/K_n$ of commutative nilmanifolds and look to see when the regular representation of $G=varinjlim{G}_n$ on an appropriate Hilbert space $varinjlim{L}^2(G_n/K_n)$ is multiplicity free. One knows that the $N_n$ are commutative or 2--step nilpotent. In many cases where the derived algebras $[g{n}_n,g{n}_n]$ are of bounded dimension we construct $G_n$--equivariant isometric maps $zet{a}_n:L^2(G_n/K_n)o{L}^2(G_{n+1}/K_{n+1})$ and prove that the left regular representation of $G$ on the Hilbert space $L^2(G/K):=varinjlim{L}^2(G_n/K_n),zet{a}_n$ is a multiplicity free direct integral of irreducible unitary representations. The direct integral and its irreducible constituents are described explicitly. One constituent of our argument is an extension of the classical Peter--Weyl Theorem to parabolic direct limits of compact groups.

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