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Continuous covariant model and measurable completion
Statement
Assume AC. For a strongly continuous unitary , let be continuous with and compact support modulo . Equip it with and take its Hilbert completion. Every completed vector admits a locally strongly measurable covariant representative, and two such representatives define the same vector exactly when they agree -almost everywhere in quotient norm.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, closed , a strongly continuous unitary representation on a Hilbert space , and the rho-derived Radon measure .
is unitary, so it preserves norms (Strongly continuous unitary representations, invariant linear subspaces and intertwiners).
The quotient is LCH and is Radon (Existence of rho-functions and quotient measure classes).
Monotone convergence applies to increasing nonnegative measurable functions (Monotone convergence for the integral).
AC is inherited from the quotient-measure construction (The Axiom of Choice).
Definition
A continuous is covariant if . Its norm descends to by unitarity. “Compact support modulo ” means this descended norm vanishes outside a compact quotient subset. The Hilbert space in the statement is the completion of this normed space, with inner product obtained by integrating the descended pointwise inner product.
Proof
For two covariant sections, [F1] gives . Thus their difference norm descends continuously to . Compact support modulo and Radon finiteness on compact sets make its square integrable, so the stated norm is well-defined.
Let be Cauchy in this norm. Choose a subsequence such that . The partial sums , with , satisfy by Minkowski. By [F3] and monotone convergence, is finite almost everywhere and has finite norm. Its infinite-value set is a measurable null set in . Outside its saturated preimage, the sections are pointwise Cauchy for every lift and converge to a covariant function ; set on the null fibers. On each compact neighborhood in , the continuous approximants have jointly separable range, so their pointwise limit is locally strongly measurable. The norm of the tail is bounded by the tail of the same summable series, again by Minkowski and monotone convergence. Thus the embedded classes converge to , which represents the original completion vector.
Equivalent Cauchy sequences have difference norm zero and so have representatives equal almost everywhere. Conversely, representatives equal almost everywhere have zero difference norm, hence define the same completion vector. This proves the asserted identification. ∎
Sources
Bekka–de la Harpe–Valette, Kazhdan’s Property (T), Appendix E §E.1 and Remark E.1.2, PDF pp. 411–413; Vogan, On the Definition of Induced Representations, §§1–4. Relevant portions were inspected.
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Sources
- Bekka–de la Harpe–Valette, Kazhdan’s Property (T), Appendices B and E (standard reference, not scraped)
- Bruhat, Lectures on Lie Groups and Representations of Locally Compact Groups, Chapters 1 and 7 (standard reference, not scraped)
- David Vogan, Unitary Representations of Locally Compact Groups and Induced Representations (standard reference, not scraped)