Representations of the weak Weyl commutation relation

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Authors Sobers Sundar

Publication date 7 May 2022

Published in arXiv

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Locally compact groups and their algebras (22D99) General theory of (C^*)-algebras (46L05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

arXiv classification

math.OA

Abstract: Let $G$ be a locally compact abelian group with Pontraygin dual $widehatG$. Suppose $P$ is a closed subsemigroup of $G$ containing the identity element $0$. We assume that $P$ has dense interior and $P$ generates $G$. Let $U:={U_{chi}}_{chiinwidehatG}$ be a strongly continuous group of unitaries and let $V:={V_a}_{ainP}$ be a strongly continuous semigroup of isometries. We call $(U,V)$ a weak Weyl pair if [ U_{chi}V_{a}=chi(a)V_{a}U_{chi}] for every $chiinwidehatG$ and for every $ainP$. We work out the representation theory (the factorial and the irreducible representations) of the above commutation relation under the assumption that $V_a{V}_a^{\ast }:ainP$ is a commuting family of projections. Not only does this generalise the results of [4] and [5], our proof brings out the Morita equivalence that lies behind the results. For $P=[0,infty)imes[0,infty)$, we demonstrate that if we drop the commutativity assumption on the range projections, then the representation theory of the weak Weyl commutation relation becomes very complicated.

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