Functional calculus in weighted group algebras (Q1884140)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact group, and let \(\omega \!: G \to [0,\infty)\) be a weight on \(G\), i.e.\ a Borel function satisfying \(\omega(xy) \leq \omega(x) \omega(y)\) for \(x,y \in G\) and \(\omega(x^{-1}) = \omega(x)\) for \(x \in G\). Then \(L^1(G,\omega)\) is a Banach \(^\ast\)-algebra that embeds continuously into \(L^1(G)\). Provided that \(G\) has polynomial growth, the self-adjoint elements of \(L^1(G)\) with compact support have a sufficiently smooth functional calculus through plugging into a Fourier series [\textit{J. Dixmier}, Publ. Math., Inst. Hautes Étud. Sci. 6, 305--317 (1960; Zbl 0100.32303)], and under sufficiently strong conditions on the growth of \(\omega\), the same is true for \(L^1(G,\omega)\) [\textit{T. Pytlik}, Stud. Math. 73, 169--176 (1982; Zbl 0504.43005)]. In the same spirit, the authors prove the existence of a functional calculus for sufficiently many elements of \(L^1(G,\omega)\) under certain technical conditions on the growth of \(\omega\). Applications of this functional calculus are, for instance, that certain spaces of ideals canonically associated with \(L^1(G)\) and \(L^1(G,\omega)\) are homeomorphic and that \(L^1(G,\omega)\) has the Wiener property.