Analytic Extensions of Representations of *-Subsemigroups Without Polar Decomposition

Let $(G,\tau )$ be a finite-dimensional Lie group with an involutive automorphism $\tau $ of $G$ and let ${{\mathfrak{g}}} = {{\mathfrak{h}}} \oplus{{\mathfrak{q}}}$ be its corresponding Lie algebra decomposition. We show that every nondegenerate strongly continuous representation on a complex Hilbert space ${\mathcal{H}}$ of an open $^\ast $-subsemigroup $S \subset G$, where $s^{\ast } = \tau (s)^{-1}$, has an analytic extension to a strongly continuous unitary representation of the 1-connected Lie group $G_1^c$ with Lie algebra $[{{\mathfrak{q}}},{{\mathfrak{q}}}] \oplus i{{\mathfrak{q}}}$. We further examine the minimal conditions under which an analytic extension to the 1-connected Lie group $G^c$ with Lie algebra ${{\mathfrak{h}}} \oplus i{{\mathfrak{q}}}$ exists. This result generalizes the Lüscher–Mack theorem and the extensions of the Lüscher–Mack theorem for $^\ast $-subsemigroups satisfying $S = S(G^\tau )_0$ by Merigon, Neeb, and Ólafsson. Finally, we prove that nondegenerate strongly continuous representations of certain $^\ast $-subsemigroups $S$ can even be extended to representations of a generalized version of an Olshanski semigroup.

Representations of minimally almost periodic groups

For any groupG, we introduce the subsetS(G) of elementsgwhich are conjugate tofor some positive integerk. We show that, for any bounded representation π ofGanyginS(G), either π(g) = 1 or the spectrum of π(g) is the full unit circle in C. As a corollary,S(G) is in the kernel of any homomorphism fromGto the unitary group of a post-liminalC*-algebra with finite composition series.Next, for a topological groupG, we consider the subset of elements approximately conjugate to 1, and we prove that it is contained in the kernel of any uniformly continuous bounded representation ofG, and of any strongly continuous unitary representation in a finite von Neumann algebra.We apply these results to prove triviality for a number of representations of isotropic simple algebraic groups defined over various fields.

The ~ -representations of symmetric homogeneous algebras

In 1947 I. E. Segal proved that to each non-degenerate ~ -representation R of L1 (= L1 (G) for a compact group G) with representation space , there corresponds a continuous unitary representation W of G, also with representation space , which satisfiesfor each fL1 and hk . This was extended to Lp,1 p < , in 1970 by E. Hewitt and K. A. Ross. We now generalize this result to any symmetric homogeneous convolution Banach alebra of pseudomeasures on G. Further we prove that the correspondence preserves irreduibility.

On groups of automorphisms of operator algebras

In section 3 we shall prove the following results: Let G be a separable locally compact abelian group, R a von Neumann algebra acting on a separable Hilbert space, and α a weakly continuous representation of G by inner *-automorphisms of R, say α(g) = ad Wg with Wg ∈ U(R). Then there is a weakly continuous unitary representation of G, by unitaries in R, implementing α if and only if the Wg's commute with each other. The result was motivated by the proof of (7), theorem 1. Suppose now Gis a discrete amenable group of *-automorphisms of a countably decomposable von Neumann algebra R. In section 3 we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a faithful normal G-invariant state on R. This generalizes a result of Hajian and Kakutani on invariant measures (2).

Irreducible representations of the group of movements of the Euclidean plane

It is well known that a wide range of Special Function Theory can be realized by considering unitary representations of certain topological groups.In this approach it is very important to determine all irreducible continuous unitary representations of the group in question.For the group of movements this problem was initiated by Vilenkin [6]. Rather restrictive conditions were imposed in this paper and while he returned to the problem in [7], it was still not solved in full generality (among other things the representation space was assumed separable). The first complete solution appears to have been given by Thoma [5]. Here, the method was to show each irreducible continuous unitary representation equivalent to a particular representation in a space of square integrable functions.