Two New Settings for Examples of von Neumann Dimension

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Authors Lauren C. Ruth

Publication date 28 November 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Automorphic forms, one variable (11F12) Representation-theoretic methods; automorphic representations over local and global fields (11F70) (p)-adic theory, local fields (11F85) Unimodular groups, congruence subgroups (group-theoretic aspects) (20H05) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10) Unitary representations of locally compact groups (22D10) (C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Induced representations for locally compact groups (22D30) Analysis on real and complex Lie groups (22E30) Analysis on (p)-adic Lie groups (22E35) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over real fields: analytic methods (22E45) Semisimple Lie groups and their representations (22E46) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over local fields (22E50) Fuchsian groups and automorphic functions (aspects of compact Riemann surfaces and uniformization) (30F35) General theory of von Neumann algebras (46L10)

Abstract: Let $G=PSL(2,mathbbR)$, let $Gamma$ be a lattice in $G$, and let $mathcalH$ be an irreducible unitary representation of $G$ with square-integrable matrix coefficients. A theorem in [Goodman, de la Harpe, Jones 1989] states that the von Neumann dimension of $mathcalH$ as a $RGamma$-module is equal to the formal dimension of the discrete series representation $mathcalH$ times the covolume of $Gamma$, calculated with respect to the same Haar measure. We prove two results inspired by this theorem. First, we show there is a representation of $RGamm{a}_2$ on a subspace of cuspidal automorphic functions in $$, where $Gamm{a}_1$ and $Gamm{a}_2$ are lattices in $G$; and this representation is unitarily equivalent to one of the representations in [Goodman, de la Harpe, Jones 1989]. Next, we calculate von Neumann dimensions when $G$ is $PGL(2,F)$, for $F$ a local non-archimedean field of characteristic $0$ with residue field of order not divisible by 2; $Gamma$ is a torsion-free lattice in $PGL(2,F)$, which, by a theorem of Ihara, is a free group; and $mathcalH$ is the Steinberg representation, or a depth-zero supercuspidal representation, each yielding a different dimension.

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