Algebraically irreducible representations of \(L^ 1\)-algebras of exponential Lie groups (Q760627)

Let \(G\) be a locally compact group. Though the determination of the strongly continuous irreducible unitary representation of \(G\) is the classical task of the representation theory of \(G\), the knowledge of the irreducible unitary representations of \(G\) does not suffice for certain purposes, such as, for example, the computation of spectra of \(L^ 1\)-functions considered as convolution operators on \(L^ 1(G)\). In this case is turns out that the proper class of representations to consider are the algebraically irreducible representations (the author calls these ``the simple \(L^ 1(G)\)-modules''). The main result of the paper is a parametrization of the set of isomorphism classes of simple \(L^ 1(G)\)-modules for exponential Lie groups \(G\).