On the regular embedding of representations of motion groups (Q752397)

Let k be local field of characteristic different from 2. Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space over k and let Q be a nondegenerate quadratic form on V. Denote by G the Lie group \(V\times O(Q)\), the semidirect product of V and the orthogonal group of Q. In this paper we study irreducible unitary representations of G which can be realized on a Hilbert subspace H of \(D'(V)\), the space of distributions on V. We show that such H are very regular: they consist of functions which are locally \(L^ 2\). This solves an interesting problem from the Harmonic Analysis on pseudo-Riemannian spaces.