On Different Definitions of Positive Definiteness

DOI10.1002/MANA.19911520104MaRDI QIDQ3978532zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jürgen Friedrich, L. Klotz

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Mathematische Nachrichten (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1002/mana.19911520104

zbMATH Keywords

commutativity of groupHilbert spacerepresentationweakly positive definite function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory of groups (20C99) Functions whose values are linear operators (operator- and matrix-valued functions, etc., including analytic and meromorphic ones) (47A56) Groups and semigroups of linear operators (47D03)

Review text

Let the function \(T^*\) be defined by \(T^*(a)=T(a^{-1})^*\) for a function \(T\) of a group \(G\) into a Hilbert space. The authors show that the commutativity of \(G\) is equivalent to each of the conditions below: (1) \(T^*\) is positive definite for every representation \(T\) of \(G\) in Hilbert space. (2) Every weakly positive definite function of \(G\) is positive definite. It answers a question of \textit{S. K. Berberian} [Mich. Math. J. 13, 171--184 (1966; Zbl 0152.13804)].

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