Induced representations of crossed products by coactions (Q1175000)

The theory of induced representations was developed by G. W. Mackey for representations of locally compact groups. The theory was reformulated by M. A. Rieffel in the context of \(C^*\)-algebras. The paper under review goes further in this direction. For a coaction \(\delta\) of a locally compact group \(G\) on a \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\) and for a closed normal amenable subgroup \(H\) of \(G\), the author defines a coaction \(\delta'\) of \(G/H\) on \(A\). Using certain dense algebras he induces representations of the crossed product \(A\times_{\delta'}(G/H)\) to \(A\times_ \delta G\). An imprimitivity theorem is also formulated and a conjecture of Rieffel is proven.