Uniformly bounded representations of SL(2,R)

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2018.10.015MaRDI QIDQ1626420zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesca Astengo, Michael G. Cowling, Bianca Di Blasio

Publication date 27 November 2018

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.09312

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupKunze-Stein phenomenonuniformly bounded representationsunitary representations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Harmonic analysis in one variable (42A99) Norms (inequalities, more than one norm, etc.) of linear operators (47A30)

Abstract: We compute the "norm" of irreducible uniformly bounded representations of SL2R. We show that the Kunze-Stein version of the uniformly bounded representations has minimal norm in the similarity class of uniformly bounded representations.

Review text

Uniformly bounded representations have been studied for a very long time; in fact, results on unitarizability of uniformly bounded representations appeared as early as 1947 and extensions of these results in 1950 showed that, on amenable groups, all uniformly bounded representations are unitarizable. The converse is the famous Dixmier's problem, still unsolved. In an important paper, \textit{L. Ehrenpreis} and \textit{F. I. Mautner} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 41, 231--233 (1955; Zbl 0064.02604); Ann. Math. (2) 61, 406--439 (1955; Zbl 0066.35701)] constructed two analytic families \(\pi_{\lambda, \epsilon}\), \(\lambda \in \mathbb C\), \(\epsilon \in \{0,1\}\), of representations of \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb R)\) as analytic continuations of complementary series representations. These are uniformly bounded for \(| \lambda| <1/2\) and most of these are not similar to unitary representations. This work, in turn, led to the Kunze-Stein phenomenon on noncompact semisimple Lie groups a little later. Subsequently, considerable efforts of many authors have gone into studying uniformly bounded representations. More recently, Pisier has made considerable advances towards the solution of Dixmier's similarity problem and has found connections between uniformly bounded representations and multipliers of the Fourier algebra. The present paper goes back to a detailed study of uniformly bounded representations of \(\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)\). It is concerned with the norms of the Kunze-Stein version of the Ehrenpreis-Mautner uniformly bounded representations \(\pi_{\lambda, \epsilon}\). (The norm of a uniformly bounded representation \(\pi\) of \(G\) is defined as the infimum of all constants \(C\) such that \(\| \pi(x) \| \leq C\) for all \(x\in G\).) Kunze and Stein gave estimates for these norms and here the exact norms are computed. The main result gives sharp estimates for these norms and shows that the Kunze-Stein representations have optimal norms.

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