Mutually disjoint irreducible decompositions of the regular representation of a restricted direct product group (Q2367474)

It is not hard to see that the restricted direct product \(G = \prod_{\alpha \in A}' G_ \alpha\) of a countably infinite family of finite groups \(G_ \alpha\), \(\alpha \in A\), with discrete topology, in general is not of type I. Its representations have therefore not a unique decomposition into irreducible components. The author studies decompositions of the left regular representation \(L\). He decomposes firstly \(L\) into factor representations. Each component of the central decomposition of \(L\) is an infinite tensor product of an irreducible representation \(\xi_ \alpha\) of \(G_ \alpha\) in a Hilbert space of finite dimension \(d(\xi_ \alpha)\). The reference vector of this infinite tensor product is a sequence of identity operators in the algebra \(B(\xi_ \alpha) = \text{End }V(\xi_ \alpha)\). Thus the factors are of type II\(_ 1\) if \(\dim B(\xi_ \alpha) \geq 2\) for infinitely many \(\alpha \in A\) or of type I otherwise. The second step of decomposing these factors into direct integrals of irreducible representations essentially depends on choice of orthogonal basis of \(V(\xi_ \alpha)\). The author constructs continuously many, mutually disjoint irreducible decompositions of the left regular representations \(L\) into irreducible components.