Unitary representations of groups, duals, and characters

DOI10.1090/SURV/250MaRDI QIDQ5151815zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bachir Bekka, Pierre de la Harpe

Publication date 22 February 2021

Published in Mathematical Surveys and Monographs (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.07262

zbMATH Keywords

C*-algebrascharacter groupdiscrete groupsLC groupsPontryagin dualprimitive dualrepresentationsThoma dualtopological groupunitary dualvon Neumann algebrasweak equivalence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to topological groups (22-02) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Ergodic theory on groups (22D40)

Abstract: This is an expository book on unitary representations of topological groups, and of several dual spaces, which are spaces of such representations up to some equivalence. The most important notions are defined for topological groups, but a special attention is paid to the case of discrete groups. The unitary dual of a group $G$ is the space of equivalence classes of its irreducible unitary representations; it is both a topological space and a Borel space. The primitive dual is the space of weak equivalence classes of unitary irreducible representations. The normal quasi-dual is the space of quasi-equivalence classes of traceable factor representations; it is parametrized by characters, which can be finite or infinite. The theory is systematically illustrated by a series of specific examples: Heisenberg groups, affine groups of infinite fields, solvable Baumslag-Solitar groups, lamplighter groups, and general linear groups. Operator algebras play an important role in the exposition, in particular the von Neumann algebras associated to a unitary representation and C*-algebras associated to a locally compact group.

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