Harmonic analysis on a Galois field and its subfields (Q939086)

In a number of recent papers, including those by the author, analogs of quantum mechanical formalism were developed for the case of finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces of complex functions on finite fields \(\mathbb F_q\) or the rings \(\mathbb F_q\times \mathbb F_q\) (here \(q=p^l\) where \(p\) is a prime number, \(l\in \mathbb N\)); see, for example, \textit{A. Vourdas}, [J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 38, No. 39, 8453--8471 (2005; Zbl 1082.81057)]. These activities give a motivation for a mathematical elaboration of an appropriate version of harmonic analysis. The author explains the relevance of Frobenius transformations and Galois groups in this context, studies displacements of the phase space \(\mathbb F_q\times \mathbb F_q\) forming a representation of the Heisenberg-Weyl group, as well as symplectic transformations, which form a representation of the group \(Sp(2,\mathbb F_q)\). Note that representations of classical groups over finite fields have been studied by many authors. See, in particular, [\textit{G. Lusztig}, Characters of reductive groups over a finite field. Annals of Mathematics Studies, 107. (Princeton, New Jersey): Princeton University Press. (1984; Zbl 0556.20033)]; [\textit{I. I. Piatetski-Shapiro}, Complex representations of \(\text{GL}(2,K)\) for finite fields \(K\). Contemp. Math. 16, 71 p. (1983; Zbl 0513.20026)].