Fields of locally compact quantum groups: Continuity and pushouts

We prove that discrete compact quantum groups (or more generally locally compact, under additional hypotheses) with coamenable dual are continuous fields over their central closed quantum subgroups, and the same holds for free products of discrete quantum groups with coamenable dual amalgamated over a common central subgroup. Along the way we also show that free products of continuous fields of [Formula: see text]-algebras are again free via a Fell-topology characterization for [Formula: see text]-field continuity, recovering a result of Blanchard’s in a somewhat more general setting.

Generating Functionals for Locally Compact Quantum Groups

Every symmetric generating functional of a convolution semigroup of states on a locally compact quantum group is shown to admit a dense unital *-subalgebra with core-like properties in its domain. On the other hand we prove that every normalised, symmetric, hermitian conditionally positive functional on a dense *-subalgebra of the unitisation of the universal C$^*$-algebra of a locally compact quantum group, satisfying certain technical conditions, extends in a canonical way to a generating functional. Some consequences of these results are outlined, notably those related to constructing cocycles out of convolution semigroups.

Amenability properties of unitary co-representations of locally compact quantum groups

For locally compact quantum groups [Formula: see text], we initiate an investigation of stable states with respect to unitary co-representations [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] on Hilbert spaces [Formula: see text]; in particular, we study the subject on the multiplicative unitary operator [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] with some examples on locally compact quantum groups arising from discrete groups and compact groups. As the main result, we consider the one co-dimensional Hilbert subspace of [Formula: see text] associated to a suitable vector [Formula: see text], to present an operator theoretic characterization of stable states with respect to a related unitary co-representation [Formula: see text]. This provides a quantum version of an interesting result on unitary representations of locally compact groups given by Lau and Paterson in 1991.

Induction for locally compact quantum groups revisited

In this paper, we revisit the theory of induced representations in the setting of locally compact quantum groups. In the case of induction from open quantum subgroups, we show that constructions of Kustermans and Vaes are equivalent to the classical, and much simpler, construction of Rieffel. We also prove in general setting the continuity of induction in the sense of Vaes with respect to weak containment.