Unitary representations of unitary groups

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Abstract: In this paper we review and streamline some results of Kirillov, Olshanski and Pickrell on unitary representations of the unitary group U(cH) of a real, complex or quaternionic separable Hilbert space and the subgroup Uinfty(cH), consisting of those unitary operators g for which g1 is compact. The Kirillov--Olshanski theorem on the continuous unitary representations of the identity component Uinfty(cH)0 asserts that they are direct sums of irreducible ones which can be realized in finite tensor products of a suitable complex Hilbert space. This is proved and generalized to inseparable spaces. These results are carried over to the full unitary group by Pickrell's Theorem, asserting that the separable unitary representations of U(cH), for a separable Hilbert space cH, are uniquely determined by their restriction to Uinfty(cH)0. For the 10 classical infinite rank symmetric pairs (G,K) of non-unitary type, such as (GL(cH),U(cH)), we also show that all separable unitary representations are trivial.




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