No label defined (Q4955628)

The notion of hypergroup was introduced by several authors as a generalization of the notion of locally compact group. In short, the locally compact space \(X\) is a hypergroup if its space of measures \(M(X)\) is endowed with the operation of convolution imitating the convolution in group measure algebras. One defines also a substitute \(L(X)\) for the subalgebra of absolutely continuous measures. In the present paper, the author proves in the context of hypergroups some basic facts, well known in the group case. Namely, the correspondence between the star-representations of \(X\) and \(L(X)\) and the positive definite functions on \(X\). Also, the relations between various types of convergence of sequences of positive definite functions on \(X\) are investigated.