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

DOI10.1016/J.JFA.2015.02.014MaRDI QIDQ491508zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yemon Choi, Mahya Ghandehari

Publication date 26 August 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

dual convolutionFourier algebraHeisenberg groupweak amenability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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this was aleady known to hold in the non-abelian compact cases, by earlier work of Johnson (JLMS, 1994) and Plymen (unpublished note).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.

Review text

\textit{B. E. Forrest} and \textit{V. Runde} [Math. Z. 250, No. 4, 731--744 (2005; Zbl 1080.22002)] conjectured that the Fourier algebras of non-abelian connected Lie groups are not weakly amenable. This was previously known to be true for non-abelian compact groups, the real \(a x + b\) groups and hence, the semisimple Lie groups. In this paper, the authors confirm this conjecture for \(1\)-connected non-abelian nilpotent Lie groups.

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