Positive definite functions of finitary isometry groups over fields of odd characteristic.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2006.05.007MaRDI QIDQ860434zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Felix Leinen, Orazio Puglisi

Publication date 9 January 2007

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2006.05.007

zbMATH Keywords

complex group algebrasfinitary isometry groupsorthogonal groupspositive definite functionssimple locally finite groupssymplectic groupsunitary groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group rings (16S34) Group rings of infinite groups and their modules (group-theoretic aspects) (20C07) Representations of finite groups of Lie type (20C33) Simple groups (20E32) Periodic groups; locally finite groups (20F50) Other matrix groups over fields (20H20) Positive definite functions in one variable harmonic analysis (42A82) Positive definite functions on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A35)

Review text

A group is said to be finitary linear if it acts faithfully on a vector space such that the fixed-point space of every element of the group has finite codimension in the vector space. Let \(G\) be a group. A normalized positive definite \(\mathbb{C}\)-linear class function is a function \(f\colon\mathbb{C} G\to\mathbb{C}\) such that \(f(1)=1\) and \(f(x^*x)\geq 0\) for all \(x\in\mathbb{C} G\), where * denotes a certain anti-automorphism of \(\mathbb{C} G\). Extremal positive definite class functions can be considered as generalized irreducible characters. The authors investigate finitary classical groups over finite fields of odd characteristic. They give a classification of extremal positive definite class functions for the orthogonal group, the unitary group, and the symplectic group.

Recommendations

• POSITIVE DEFINITE FUNCTIONS OF DIAGONAL LIMITS OF FINITE ALTERNATING GROUPS
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1104180
• Strictly positive definite functions on compact Abelian groups
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1294394
• On positive definiteness over locally compact quantum groups

Cites work

• Confined subgroups in periodic simple finitary linear groups
• Confined Subgroups of Simple Locally Finite Groups and Ideals of their Group Rings
• Die unzerlegbaren Charaktere einiger diskreter Gruppen
• Die unzerlegbaren, positiv-definiten Klassenfunktionen der abzählbar unendlichen, symmetrischen Gruppe
• Factorization into Symmetries and Transvections of Given Conjugacy Classes
• Grassmannian fixed point ratios
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3781457 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6882 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 822334 (Why is no real title available?)
• On simple periodic linear groups -- dense subgroups, permutation representations, and induced modules
• Products of \(\lambda\)-transvections in Sp(2n,q)
• Products of positive transvections in the real symplectic group
• Products of symmetries in unitary groups
• Some generalizations of the Weil representations of the symplectic and unitary groups
• The ideal lattices of the complex group rings of finitary special and general linear groups over finite fields
• Two-graphs and doubly transitive groups
• Weil representations associated to finite fields
• Über unitäre Darstellungen abzählbarer, diskreter Gruppen

Cited in

(1)

• POSITIVE DEFINITE FUNCTIONS OF DIAGONAL LIMITS OF FINITE ALTERNATING GROUPS

This page was built for publication: Positive definite functions of finitary isometry groups over fields of odd characteristic.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q860434)