scholarly journals Positive definite functions and cut-off for discrete groups

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Amaury Freslon
Keyword(s):  
Random Walks ◽  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Discrete Group ◽  
Coxeter Groups ◽  
Free Groups ◽  
Positive Definite Function ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Definite Function ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Compact Quantum Groups

Abstract We consider the sequence of powers of a positive definite function on a discrete group. Taking inspiration from random walks on compact quantum groups, we give several examples of situations where a cut-off phenomenon occurs for this sequence, including free groups and infinite Coxeter groups. We also give examples of absence of cut-off using free groups again.

scholarly journals Weak mixing for locally compact quantum groups

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 1657-1680 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMI VISELTER
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Von Neumann Algebras ◽  
Unitary Representations ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Weak Mixing ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Von Neumann ◽  
Locally Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Compact Quantum Groups ◽  
Weakly Mixing

We generalize the notion of weakly mixing unitary representations to locally compact quantum groups, introducing suitable extensions of all standard characterizations of weak mixing to this setting. These results are used to complement the non-commutative Jacobs–de Leeuw–Glicksberg splitting theorem of Runde and the author [Ergodic theory for quantum semigroups. J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 89(3) (2014), 941–959]. Furthermore, a relation between mixing and weak mixing of state-preserving actions of discrete quantum groups and the properties of certain inclusions of von Neumann algebras, which is known for discrete groups, is demonstrated.

Unbounded Positive Definite Functions

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 1309-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Abelian Group ◽  
Positive Measure ◽  
Positive Definite Function ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Locally Compact Abelian Group ◽  
Definite Function ◽  
Complex Numbers ◽  
Stieltjes Transform ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Image Position

Let G be an abelian group, written additively. A complexvalued function ƒ, defined on G, is said to be positive definite if the inequality1holds for every choice of complex numbers C1, …, cn and S1, …, sn in G. It follows directly from (1) that every positive definite function is bounded. Weil (9, p. 122) and Raïkov (5) proved that every continuous positive definite function on a locally compact abelian group is the Fourier-Stieltjes transform of a bounded positive measure, thus generalizing theorems of Herglotz (4) (G = Z, the integers) and Bochner (1) (G = R, the real numbers).If ƒ is a continuous function, then condition (1) is equivalent to the condition that2

scholarly journals Quasi-flat representations of uniform groups and quantum groups

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (08) ◽  
pp. 1950155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teodor Banica ◽  
Alexandru Chirvasitu
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Groups ◽  
Discrete Group ◽  
Homogeneous Spaces ◽  
Model Space ◽  
Representation Formula ◽  
Discrete Groups ◽  
Universal Model ◽  
Induced Representation ◽  
Negative Results ◽  
Number Formula

Given a discrete group [Formula: see text] and a number [Formula: see text], a unitary representation [Formula: see text] is called quasi-flat when the eigenvalues of each [Formula: see text] are uniformly distributed among the [Formula: see text]th roots of unity. The quasi-flat representations of [Formula: see text] form altogether a parametric matrix model [Formula: see text]. We compute here the universal model space [Formula: see text] for various classes of discrete groups, notably with results in the case where [Formula: see text] is metabelian. We are particularly interested in the case where [Formula: see text] is a union of compact homogeneous spaces, and where the induced representation [Formula: see text] is stationary in the sense that it commutes with the Haar functionals. We present several positive and negative results on this subject. We also discuss similar questions for the discrete quantum groups, proving a stationarity result for the discrete dual of the twisted orthogonal group [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals The Point Value Maximization Problem for Positive Definite Functions Supported in a Given Subset of a Locally Compact Group

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-200
Author(s):  
Sándor Krenedits ◽  
Szilárd Gy. Révész
Keyword(s):  
Extremal Problem ◽  
Positive Definite Function ◽  
Positive Definiteness ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Maximization Problem ◽  
Definite Function ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Value Maximization ◽  
Compact Abelian Groups ◽  
Complex Exponential

AbstractThe century-old extremal problem, solved by Carathéodory and Fejér, concerns a non-negative trigonometric polynomial $T(t) = a_0 + \sum\nolimits_{k = 1}^n {a_k} \cos (2\pi kt) + b_k\sin (2\pi kt){\ge}0$, normalized by a0=1, where the quantity to be maximized is the coefficient a1 of cos (2π t). Carathéodory and Fejér found that for any given degree n, the maximum is 2 cos(π/n+2). In the complex exponential form, the coefficient sequence (ck) ⊂ ℂ will be supported in [−n, n] and normalized by c0=1. Reformulating, non-negativity of T translates to positive definiteness of the sequence (ck), and the extremal problem becomes a maximization problem for the value at 1 of a normalized positive definite function c: ℤ → ℂ, supported in [−n, n]. Boas and Kac, Arestov, Berdysheva and Berens, Kolountzakis and Révész and, recently, Krenedits and Révész investigated the problem in increasing generality, reaching analogous results for all locally compact abelian groups. We prove an extension to all the known results in not necessarily commutative locally compact groups.

Dependence of the Weyl coefficient on singular interface conditions

2009 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 445-487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Langer ◽  
Harald Woracek
Keyword(s):  
Hamiltonian Function ◽  
Positive Definite Function ◽  
Canonical System ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Definite Function ◽  
Interface Conditions ◽  
Canonical Systems ◽  
Bessel Equation ◽  
Continuation Problem ◽  
Sturm Liouville

AbstractWe investigate the influence of interface conditions at a singularity of an indefinite canonical system on its Weyl coefficient. An explicit formula which parametrizes all possible Weyl coefficients of indefinite canonical systems with fixed Hamiltonian function is derived. This result is illustrated with two examples: the Bessel equation, which has a singular end point, and a Sturm–Liouville equation whose potential has an inner singularity, which arises from a continuation problem for a positive definite function.

scholarly journals On Godement's characterisation of amenability

1998 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Valette
Keyword(s):  
Positive Definite Function ◽  
Positive Definite ◽  
Locally Compact Groups ◽  
Definite Function ◽  
Compact Groups ◽  
Locally Compact ◽  
Unimodular Group ◽  
Compactly Supported ◽  
Assembly Map

Motivated by a question related to the construction of the Baum-Connes analytical assembly map for locally compact groups, we refine a criterion of Godement for amenability: for a unimodular group G, our criterion says that G is amenable if and only if every compactly supported, positive-definite function has non-negative integral over G.

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