The complex-time Segal-Bargmann transform (Q2334570)

The paper deals with a generalization of the Segal-Bargmann transform over a connected compact type Lie group \(K\), that allows the time parameter of the transform to be complex. After constructing a space-time analytic continuation of the heat kernel \((\rho_t(x))_{t>0,x\in K}\) to a holomorphic function \((\rho_{\mathbb{C}}(\tau,z))_{\Re\tau>0,z\in K_{\mathbb{C}}}\) with \(K_{\mathbb{C}}\) being the complexification of \(K\), the authors define the new transform by \[ (B_\tau f)(z) = \int_K \rho_{\mathbb{C}}(\tau, z k^{- 1}) f(k) d k,\quad z \in K_{\mathbb{C}}. \] The integral defines a holomorphic function on \(K_{\mathbb{C}}\) for each \(f \in L^2(K, \rho_s)\) when \(\tau\) belongs to the complex disc of radius \(s>0\) and centered at \(s\). The central result of the paper provides a construction of a heat kernel density \(\mu_{s,\tau}\) on \(K_{\mathbb{C}}\) with the property that \(B_{s, \tau} := B_\tau |_{L^2(K, \rho_s)}\) is an isometric isomorphism from \(L^2(K, \rho_s)\) onto the space of holomorphic functions in \(L^2(K_{\mathbb{C}}, \mu_{s, \tau})\) for all \(s\) and \(\tau\) as above. In particular, if \(\tau = t = s\), then the transform \(B_{t, t}\) coincides with the one introduced in [\textit{B. C. Hall}, J. Funct. Anal. 122, No. 1, 103--151 (1994; Zbl 0838.22004)] for compact groups and extended in [the first author, J. Funct. Anal. 133, No. 1, 69--128 (1995; Zbl 0846.43001)] to groups of compact type. In the case \(\tau = t \in(0, 2 s)\), the transform \(B_{s, t}\) coincides with the one introduced by the first two authors in [Commun. Math. Phys. 201, No. 2, 249--290 (1999; Zbl 0960.53043)].