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 groupsEberlein algebrasFourier-Stieltjes algebrassemi-topological compactificationsunitary representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) 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) Representations of groups, semigroups, etc. (aspects of abstract harmonic analysis) (43A65) 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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