On the representations of certain idempotent topological semigroups

DOI10.1007/BF02574344MaRDI QIDQ1185778zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors S. Singh

Publication date 28 June 1992

Published in Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/135148

zbMATH Keywords

continuous representationscyclic representationsidempotentslocally compact topological semilatticesoperators in Hilbert spaceprojectionstotally ordered semigroupsweak operator topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on topological semigroups (22A20) Representations of general topological groups and semigroups (22A25) Topological semilattices, lattices and applications (22A26)

Review text

This paper is concerned with the representation of locally compact topological semilattices (considered as semigroups) by operators in Hilbert space. Since all elements of semilattices are idempotents, the image operators must be projections. Since continuous representations are sought the topology on the projections cannot be the norm topology, which is discrete; the weak operator topology is used. Under these conditions, when the semilattice \(S\) has an identity, any cyclic representation of \(S\) can be realized on a Hilbert space \(L^ 2(\mu)\), where \(\mu\) is a measure on the (compact) dual \(\widehat S\) of \(S\). The authors' real aim is to find representations on more accessible spaces \(L^ 2(m)\), where \(m\) is a measure on \(S\) itself. This they achieve for the special case in which \(S\) is a product of a finite number of totally ordered semigroups (though the details are presented for a product of just two). The technique is to produce a homomorphism from \(\widehat S\) onto \(S\), and it is then enough to consider the image measures. In fact, the images of measures which allow continuous cyclic representations are characterized by a natural continuity condition on \(S\).

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