Positive definite (p.d.) functions vs p.d. distributions

Publication date 19 December 2017

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Potentials and capacity, harmonic measure, extremal length and related notions in two dimensions (31A15) General harmonic expansions, frames (42C15) Applications of functional analysis to differential and integral equations (46N20) Applications of functional analysis in probability theory and statistics (46N30) Applications of functional analysis in quantum physics (46N50) Algebras of unbounded operators; partial algebras of operators (47L60) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Numerical methods for integral transforms (65R10) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: We give explicit transforms for Hilbert spaces associated with positive definite functions on

m a t h b b R

, and positive definite tempered distributions, incl., generalizations to non-abelian locally compact groups. Applications to the theory of extensions of p.d. functions/distributions are included. We obtain explicit representation formulas for positive definite tempered distributions in the sense of L. Schwartz, and we give applications to Dirac combs and to diffraction. As further applications, we give parallels between Bochner's theorem (for continuous p.d. functions) on the one hand, and the generalization to Bochner/Schwartz representations for positive definite tempered distributions on the other; in the latter case, via tempered positive measures. Via our transforms, we make precise the respective reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs), that of N. Aronszajn and that of L. Schwartz. Further applications are given to stationary-increment Gaussian processes.

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