Matrix coefficients of unitary representations and associated compactifications

Details Matrix coefficients of unitary representations and associated compactifications Matrix coefficients of unitary representations and associated compactifications

2011-12-20

arxiv.org/abs/1112.4878v1

Mathematics

Functional Analysis

37 pages

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We study, for a locally compact group $G$, the compactifications $(\pi,G^\pi)$ associated with unitary representations $\pi$, which we call {\it $\pi$-Eberlein compactifications}. We also study the Gelfand spectra $\Phi_{\fA(\pi)}$ of the uniformly closed algebras $\mathcal{A}(\pi)$ generated by matrix coefficients of such $\pi$. We note that $\Phi_{\mathcal{A}(\pi)}\cup\{0\}$ is itself a semigroup and show that the \v{S}ilov boundary of $\mathcal{A}(\pi)$ is $G^\pi$. We study containment relations of various uniformly closed algebras generated by matrix coefficients, and give a new characterisation of amenability: the constant function 1 can be uniformly approximated by matrix coefficients of representations weakly contained in the left regular representation if and only if $G$ is amenable. We show that for the universal representation $\omega$, the compactification $(\omega,G^\omega)$ has a certain universality property: it is universal amongst all compactifications of $G$ which may be embedded as contractions on a Hilbert space, a fact which was also recently proved by Megrelishvili. We illustrate our results with examples including various abelian and compact groups, and the $ax+b$-group. In particular, we witness algebras $\fA(\pi)$, for certain non-self-conjugate $\pi$, as being generalised algebras of analytic functions.

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