Fourier analysis on the affine group, quantization and noncompact Connes geometries (Q933192)

The Stratonovich-Weyl quantizer for the non-unimodular affine group of the line is determined. This provides a noncommutative product of functions on the half-plane, underlying a noncompact spectral triple in the sense of \textit{A. Connes} [Commun. Math. Phys. 182, No.~1, 155--176 (1996; Zbl 0881.58009)]. It is shown that the corresponding Wigner functions reproduce the time-frequency distributions of signal processing, and that the same construction leads to scalar Fourier transformations on the affine group, simplifying and extending the Fourier transformation proposed by \textit{A. A. Kirillov} [Lectures on the orbit method. Graduate Studies in Mathematics 64. Providence, RI: Am. Math. Soc. (2004; Zbl 1229.22003)].