Quantum relative modular functions

Publication date 23 September 2022

Abstract: Let

m a t h b b H r i a n g l e l e f t e q m a t h b b G

be a closed normal subgroup of a locally compact quantum group. We introduce a strictly positive group-like element affiliated with

L^{i n f t y} (m a t h b b G)

that, roughly, measures the failure of

m a t h b b G

to act measure-preservingly on

m a t h b b H

by conjugation. The triviality of that element is equivalent to the condition that

m a t h b b G

and

m a t h b b G / m a t h b b H

have the same modular element, by analogy with the classical situation. This condition is automatic if

m a t h b b H l e m a t h b b G

is central, and in general implies the unimodularity of

m a t h b b H

. We also describe a bijection between strictly positive group-like elements

d e l t a

affiliated with

C_{0} (m a t h b b G)

and quantum-group morphisms

m a t h b b G o (m a t h b b R, +)

, with the closed image of the morphism easily described in terms of the spectrum of

d e l t a

. This then implies that property-(T) locally compact quantum groups admit no non-obvious strictly positive group-like elements.

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