Weak amenability for Fourier algebras of 1-connected nilpotent Lie groups

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2015.02.014zbMATH Open1328.43005arXiv1405.6403OpenAlexW2091760546MaRDI QIDQ491508FDOQ491508

Authors: Yemon Choi, Mahya Ghandehari 

Publication date: 26 August 2015

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

Abstract: A special case of a conjecture raised by Forrest and Runde (Math. Zeit., 2005) asserts that the Fourier algebra of every non-abelian connected Lie group fails to be weakly amenable; this was aleady known to hold in the non-abelian compact cases, by earlier work of Johnson (JLMS, 1994) and Plymen (unpublished note). In recent work (JFA, 2014) the present authors verified this conjecture for the real ax+b group and hence, by structure theory, for any semisimple Lie group. In this paper we verify the conjecture for all 1-connected, non-abelian nilpotent Lie groups, by reducing the problem to the case of the Heisenberg group. As in our previous paper, an explicit non-zero derivation is constructed on a dense subalgebra, and then shown to be bounded using harmonic analysis. En route, we use the known fusion rules for Schr"odinger representations to give a concrete realization of the "dual convolution" for this group as a kind of twisted, operator-valued convolution. We also give some partial results for solvable groups which give further evidence to support the general conjecture.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.6403

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zbMATH Keywords

Heisenberg groupFourier algebraweak amenabilitydual convolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Commutators, derivations, elementary operators, etc. (47B47) Fourier and Fourier-Stieltjes transforms on nonabelian groups and on semigroups, etc. (43A30) Banach algebras of continuous functions, function algebras (46J10)

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