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The regular translation system on : position, momentum and trivial stabilizer
Example
Assume AC and let be an integer. Let act on by translation, let be the left regular representation on , and let be multiplication by the indicator of a Borel set . Then is a transitive system of imprimitivity on with trivial stabilizer, is the joint spectral measure of the commuting self-adjoint position operators of multiplication by the coordinates, and is the representation induced from the trivial representation of the trivial subgroup; the momentum operators are the self-adjoint Fourier multipliers on , with . With the repository convention , the full self-adjoint and derivative generators are and on . On Schwartz functions, , and ; the differential notation here is asserted on that test space. The system is the classical model behind the imprimitivity theorem and behind the position-momentum form of the Stone-von Neumann uniqueness theorem.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: AC, the translation action of on itself, and the pair with and .
The left regular representation on is unitary and strongly continuous (The regular representations are unitary, strongly continuous, and the left one is faithful, Left and right regular unitary representations of an LCH group).
For the multiplication PVM on one has , , , strong countable additivity, and integration of bounded Borel functions gives multiplication by those functions (Projection valued measure, Bounded borel pvm integral).
Translation is a continuous transitive action of on itself whose stabilizer at the origin is , so the base is the homogeneous space ; the pair with the covariance identity is a transitive system of imprimitivity (Left group actions, transitive actions, and faithful actions, Left and right cosets and of a subgroup, Systems of imprimitivity for a Borel -space, Transitive systems of imprimitivity and their normalized measure class).
The clause of the induction theorem identifies with the left regular representation and its canonical system with the multiplication system (An induced representation carries a canonical system of imprimitivity on , Unitary induction from a closed subgroup, Strongly continuous unitary representations, invariant linear subspaces and intertwiners).
The one-parameter groups are the coordinate translation groups, and their generator is computed directly on the Schwartz space: there the generator satisfies , so , and the multiplier theorem identifies the full Fourier-side domain (Infinitesimal generator of a unitary group, Real L2 multipliers and unitary transport, Plancherel theorem, Fourier transform acts continuously on Schwartz space, Translation, modulation, linear dilation and reflection laws, Schwartz space is dense in L2, Schwartz space and its seminorms).
For , with the metric , real completeness gives convergence of Cauchy sequences and the countable dense set makes Polish; its Borel space is standard Borel (The reals are complete, The rationals embed densely in the reals, is countably infinite, A product of two at most countable sets is at most countable, as the set of functions , and , , are metrics on it, Polish spaces are separable completely metrizable spaces, Standard Borel spaces). For , use the zero metric on the singleton instead.
AC is the standing hypothesis (The Axiom of Choice).
Verification
Given: AC, , , the translation action, on , and .
For , the base and group are singletons, with unit mass, and is the one-point PVM; induction from the trivial group gives this system, and there are no coordinate operators. Thus all claims hold in that case. Assume for the remaining steps. Then is a strongly continuous unitary representation and is a projection-valued measure by [F1] and [F2]. Covariance is a direct computation from : . The action is transitive and the stabilizer of the origin is by [F3], so the base is with the trivial subgroup.
For each , has domain and is an unbounded self-adjoint real multiplication operator by the multiplier result of [F5]. Its spectral projections are for Borel . They commute, and the joint multiplication PVM is ; the unbounded coordinate integral equals on its stated domain, while bounded Borel functions of the coordinates act by the bounded integrals of [F2].
is induced from the trivial representation of the trivial subgroup: by the clause of [F4], is the left regular representation on , and the canonical system of that induction is the multiplication system .
For Schwartz , the difference quotient tends in to , by the fundamental theorem of calculus and a Schwartz majorant. To identify the full domain, apply the unitary Fourier transform of [F5]: coordinate translation becomes multiplication by in the usual Fourier normalization. The derivative limit exists precisely when : sufficiency follows from and dominated convergence, and necessity from an almost-everywhere convergent subsequence of any limit of the quotients, whose pointwise limit is . Define on . The multiplier theorem makes it self-adjoint and its transported exponential is . Thus and on the full domain . On Schwartz functions the Fourier differentiation identity gives , recovering and there. No pointwise derivative of a general class is used.
Standard Borel and Polish: by [F6] the metric makes complete with countable dense subset , so is Polish and its Borel space is standard Borel, while the singleton case uses the zero metric as in step 1.1; the base with its standard Borel structure is the one used by the system.
Steps 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 2.1 verify all the displayed claims: transitivity with trivial stabilizer, the PVM as joint spectral measure of position, the induced-representation identification, the momentum generators, and the standard-Borel base.
Depends on
- Mackey's imprimitivity theorem
- An induced representation carries a canonical system of imprimitivity on $G/H$
- Unitary induction from a closed subgroup
- Left and right regular unitary representations of an LCH group
- The regular representations are unitary, strongly continuous, and the left one is faithful
- Projection valued measure
- Systems of imprimitivity for a Borel $G$-space
- Transitive systems of imprimitivity and their normalized measure class
- Strongly continuous unitary representations, invariant linear subspaces and intertwiners
- Left and right cosets $gH$ and $Hg$ of a subgroup
- Left group actions, transitive actions, and faithful actions
- The Axiom of Choice
- Standard Borel spaces
- Polish spaces are separable completely metrizable spaces
- The reals are complete
- $\mathbb{Q}$ is countably infinite
- The rationals embed densely in the reals
- $\mathbb{R}^n$ as the set of functions $n \to \mathbb{R}$, and $d_1$, $d_2$, $d_\infty$ are metrics on it
- A product of two at most countable sets is at most countable
- Infinitesimal generator of a unitary group
- Real L2 multipliers and unitary transport
- Plancherel theorem
- Fourier transform acts continuously on Schwartz space
- Translation, modulation, linear dilation and reflection laws
- Schwartz space is dense in L2
- Schwartz space and its seminorms
- Bounded borel pvm integral
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Sources
- G. W. Mackey, Imprimitivity for Representations of Locally Compact Groups I, PNAS 35 (1949) 537-545 (Internet Archive capture of the PubMed Central scan) (standard reference, not scraped)
- V. S. Sunder, Notes on the Imprimitivity Theorem (ISIBangalore/IMSc lecture notes, 22 pp.) (standard reference, not scraped)