Representations of Polish groups and continuity (Q2921795)

The authors work on the question of automatic continuity of representations of Polish groups, with an accent on non-locally compact groups. They continue the line of their previous results.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe first part (Section 2) of the paper deals with norm continuous representations: let \(\theta: G\to U(A)\) be a homomorphism from a Polish group \(G\) into the unitary group of a unital \(C^*\)-algebra \(A\), then it is (norm) continuous if \(\|\theta(g)-I\|\to0\), \(g\to e\in G\). Note that there are Lie groups for which the only norm continuous unitary representation is the trivial one; for abelian groups, however, norm continuity is equivalent to the (usual) strong continuity.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the paper it is proved in particular that \(\theta\) is norm continuous if and only if \(\omega\circ\theta\) is continuous for every state \(\omega\) of \(A\), or equivalently for every pure state. In the abelian case, this amounts of course to the continuity of compositions with characters of \(A\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the second part (Section 3) the authors prove that if a unitary representation \(\theta\) of a Polish group \(G\) on a Hilbert space \(H\) has the Baire property with respect to the weak operator topology on \(B(H)\), then it is strongly continuous. The proof is a modification of the reviewer's proof [\textit{Y. Kuznetsova}, ibid. 210, No. 3, 197--208 (2012; Zbl 1290.22002)] for the case where \(\theta\) is supposed Haar measurable and \(G\) a (general) locally compact group.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEAfter stating several technical properties of representations, notably involving spectra of \(\theta(g)\), the authors obtain arrive in particular (Section 6) the following theorem: on a hereditarily indecomposable Banach space, every strongly continuous representation of a locally compact locally divisible Polish group is norm continuous.