Matrix coefficients of unitary representations and associated compactifications

DOI10.1512/IUMJ.2013.62.4825MaRDI QIDQ5402177zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nico Spronk, Ross Stokke

Publication date 6 March 2014

Published in Indiana University Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4878, http://www.iumj.indiana.edu/IUMJ/ABS/2013/4825

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupsunitary representationsFourier-Stieltjes algebrasEberlein algebrassemi-topological compactifications

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on locally compact and other abelian groups (43A25) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Rings and algebras of continuous, differentiable or analytic functions (46E25) Banach algebras of continuous functions, function algebras (46J10)

Abstract: We study, for a locally compact group $G$, the compactifications $(pi,G^{p}i)$ associated with unitary representations $pi$, which we call {it $pi$-Eberlein compactifications}. We also study the Gelfand spectra $$ of the uniformly closed algebras $mathcalA(pi)$ generated by matrix coefficients of such $pi$. We note that $Ph{i}_{mathcalA(pi)}cup0$ is itself a semigroup and show that the v{S}ilov boundary of $mathcalA(pi)$ is $G^{p}i$. We study containment relations of various uniformly closed algebras generated by matrix coefficients, and give a new characterisation of amenability: the constant function 1 can be uniformly approximated by matrix coefficients of representations weakly contained in the left regular representation if and only if $G$ is amenable. We show that for the universal representation $omega$, the compactification $(omega,G^{o}mega)$ has a certain universality property: it is universal amongst all compactifications of $G$ which may be embedded as contractions on a Hilbert space, a fact which was also recently proved by Megrelishvili. We illustrate our results with examples including various abelian and compact groups, and the $ax+b$-group. In particular, we witness algebras $fA(pi)$, for certain non-self-conjugate $pi$, as being generalised algebras of analytic functions.

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