Noninvertibility of invariant differential operators on Lie groups of polynomial growth (Q1193063)

It is shown that left invariant differential operators on a connected Lie group \(G\) of polynomial growth are not boundedly invertible in \(L^ 2(G,\omega(x)dx)\), where \(dx\) is the right Haar measure and \(\omega(x)\) is a polynomial weight. This should be considered in the context of Levy- Bruhl's use of exponential weights.