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Right translation scales left Haar measure
Statement
Assume AC. For a fixed left Haar measure on an LCH group and , the functional is integration against a left Haar measure, hence equals a unique positive scalar on .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: An LCH group , a left Haar measure on , an element , and AC.
A left Haar measure is a nonzero Borel measure that is left invariant, finite on compact sets, outer regular on Borel sets and inner regular on open sets; a left Haar integral is a nonzero positive left-invariant functional on with complexification by real and imaginary parts (Left Haar integral and left Haar measure).
A continuous map between topological spaces is Borel measurable: the sets with form a sigma-algebra containing every open set, and hence contain by its generated-sigma-algebra definition. Applying this to a homeomorphism and its inverse shows that it transports Borel sets in both directions (The Borel sigma-algebra of a topological space).
Right translation preserves : for and one has in with ; left translation is the same statement with a left translate of the support (Translations preserve compactly supported continuous functions).
Any two left Haar measures on an LCH group are positive scalar multiples on every Borel set (Uniqueness of left Haar measure up to scale).
Monotone convergence passes increasing limits of nonnegative measurable functions through the integral (Monotone convergence for the integral).
AC is assumed in the choice-function form of the cited definition (The Axiom of Choice).
Proof
Fix and define for every Borel set . The map is a homeomorphism of with inverse , so it carries Borel sets to Borel sets by [F2] and compact sets to compact sets by [F3]. Hence is a nonzero Borel measure (it is nonzero because is, by [F1]) that is finite on compact sets: if is compact then is compact by [F3] and by [F1]. It is outer regular on Borel sets, since the homeomorphism gives a bijection from open supersets of to open supersets of , and therefore , also when the value is infinite. Finally it is inner regular on open sets: for open the set is open, so inner regularity of gives , and is a bijection between the compact subsets of and those of with ; hence . Thus is a Radon measure.
For define . By [F4] the function lies again in , so it is integrable against the compact-finite measure by [F1]; thus is a real-linear functional on , and it is positive, because implies for every and hence .
The measure of step 1.1 represents . Indeed, for the indicator of a Borel set the definitions give ; both sides are additive, so linearity extends the identity to nonnegative simple functions, [F6] extends it to all nonnegative Borel functions, and taking real and imaginary parts extends it to all of . In particular the Radon measure is the one attached to the positive functional , and by step 1.1.
is left invariant: for and Borel , , using left invariance of in the middle step. With step 1.1 this makes a left Haar measure in the sense of [F1].
Since and are both left Haar measures, [F5] (whose choice hypothesis is discharged by [A1]) provides a scalar with for every Borel set . The scalar is unique: if also then for every Borel , and some Borel set has , since together with outer and inner regularity of produces a compact set of positive finite measure by [F1].
Consequently, for every , the representation in step 2.1 and the proportionality in step 3.1 give which is the asserted identity; the case with the imaginary unit is handled by applying the real identity to and . The scalar is positive and unique by step 3.1, and because .
Remarks
- Borel-level form. The proof upgrades the identity to measures: is the Radon measure , so for every nonnegative Borel and every -integrable , because the integral of a nonnegative Borel function is determined by the measure it integrates against.
- Existence is not assumed. The lemma is conditional on a given left Haar measure; under AC such a measure exists for every LCH group by Existence of left and right Haar measures, so the modular function defined on the next item is available for every LCH group.
- Terminology. The scalar is the reciprocal normalization of the modular function defined on the next item, ; the affine computation of the companion page displays that convention concretely.
Depends on
- Existence of left and right Haar measures
- Uniqueness of left Haar measure up to scale
- Translations preserve compactly supported continuous functions
- Left Haar integral and left Haar measure
- The Borel sigma-algebra of a topological space
- A continuous image of a compact space is compact; a continuous real-valued map on a nonempty compact space attains a maximum and a minimum; and a continuous bijection from a compact space to a Hausdorff space is a homeomorphism
- Monotone convergence for the integral
- The Axiom of Choice
Used by
- Left and right regular unitary representations of an LCH group Definition
- Modular function of a locally compact group Definition
- The modular function of the affine group of the line Example
- Haar change of variables under inversion Lemma
- Strong continuity of left and modular right translations on L1 and L2 Lemma
- The modular function is a continuous homomorphism Theorem
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Sources
- Bekka, de la Harpe and Valette, Kazhdan’s Property (T), Appendix A §§A.3–A.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Emmanuel Kowalski, Representation Theory of Groups, §§5.2–5.3 (standard reference, not scraped)