On unitary representability of topological groups (Q834792)

A topological group is said to be \textit{unitarily representable} if it can be embedded in the unitary group of a Hilbert space endowed with the strong operator topology. The family of unitarily representable groups contains the variety of nuclear groups [\textit{W. Banaszczyk}, Additive subgroups of topological vector spaces. Lecture Notes in Mathematics. 1466. Berlin etc.: Springer-Verlag (1991; Zbl 0743.46002)] and, in particular, locally compact Abelian groups. There is given a characterization of unitarily representable Abelian topological groups (Theorem 2.3): For an Abelian topological group \(G\) the following conditions are equivalent: (i) \(G\) is unitarily representable. \((ii)\) There is a uniform embedding of \(G\) into a power \((l_1)^k\) of the Banach space \(l_1\). \((iii)\) There is a uniform embedding of \(G\) into a power \((l_2)^k\) of the Banach space \(l_2\). It is proved (Theorem 3.3) that the dual group \(\widehat{E}=(E^\ast, \tau_k(E))\), where \(E\) is an \(\mathfrak{L}_\infty\)-space [\textit{Y. Benyamini} and \textit{J. Lindenstrauss}, Geometric nonlinear functional analysis, Volume I. Colloquium Publications. American Mathematical Society (AMS). 48. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS). (2000; Zbl 0946.46002)], \(E^\ast\) its dual and \(\tau_k(E)\) the topology of uniform convergence on compact subsets of \(E\), is unitarily representable. Let \(X\) be a compact space and \(M_c(X)\) the dual of \(C(X,\mathbb{R})\). Then the additive group of \(M_c(X)\), the free locally convex space \(L(X)\) and the free Abelian topological group \(A(X)\) are unitarily representable (Corollary 3.6). In the last, fourth section, the author discusses the ways in which the class of unitarily representable groups can be extended. In this context an example is produced of a Schwartz space which is not unitarily representable (Theorem 4.3).