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Essential uniqueness of the type I irreducible disintegration
Statement
Assume the Axiom of Choice. Let be a second-countable locally compact group of type I and let be a strongly continuous unitary representation on a separable Hilbert space, with irreducible direct integral decompositions over as in Irreducible direct integral decomposition for type I groups, with measures and multiplicity functions . Then and are equivalent measures on and almost everywhere; the decomposition is unique in this sense, and the pair is an invariant of .
Facts & Assumptions
The type-I dual-labelled disintegration exists, with measurable multiplicities and irreducible fields on conull standard-Borel supports; its Proof7.1–8.1 proves that the resulting models are central (Irreducible direct integral decomposition for type I groups).
Two central decompositions are related by a conull bimeasurable measure-class bijection and a measurable field of fibre unitaries (Essential uniqueness of the central decomposition).
A unitary between positive finite/countable amplifications of irreducible unitary representations forces equality of irreducible classes and multiplicities (Irreducible class and multiplicity of a type I factor representation are well defined). AC is The Axiom of Choice.
Proof
Given: AC and the hypotheses and notation of the Statement.
In the zero-space case both measures are zero: otherwise the positive-measure support with nonzero irreducible amplified fibres would give a nonzero square-integrable localized fundamental section, contradicting the zero direct integral. The measures are then equivalent and the almost-everywhere multiplicity assertion is vacuous. For , every model satisfying the labelled decomposition conditions of [F1] is central on its conull standard-Borel support: repeat the intrinsic ideal-support and fibre-centre argument of [F1] for that model. The intrinsic ideal-range projections are scalar indicators of the same countable generating ideal-opens, hence the full diagonal algebra lies in the generated algebra; the fibre centre is scalar, so the centre is exactly that diagonal algebra. That argument uses finite-measure localizations and applies to sigma-finite measures as well as to the normalized probability measure used in the existence construction. Apply [F2] to obtain a conull bimeasurable map carrying the first measure to a measure equivalent to the second, and unitary equivalences between the factor fibre at in the first model and that at in the second.
The two fibres are respectively copies of the irreducible class and copies of the irreducible class . Their unitary equivalence and [F3] force and on one conull set. Thus the central base isomorphism is the identity on actual dual labels, so its pushforward measure-class assertion is precisely on the same dual. Their multiplicities coincide almost everywhere; transitivity makes the measure class and multiplicity equivalence class invariants of . This use of labelled fibre equivalence is legitimate because centrality and class identification were proved in [F1]; it does not follow merely from using the same name for two bases.
Boundary and source qualifications
AC is inherited from existence, central transport and multiplicity uniqueness. No new selector is needed: the transport field already exists, and equality of its actual class labels forces the base map to be the identity. The zero representation forces both measures to be zero. One-point, atomic and non-atomic supports, as well as finite or infinite multiplicities, use the same fibrewise argument. No new citation exception is used. The only inherited cited premise is the exact Glimm factor-type-I-to-GCR implication in the criteria supplier, under the recorded owner authority. The complete Bekka–de la Harpe PDF pp.195–202 was consulted: its canonical decomposition uses prior structure results; here the conull selection, kernel regrouping, centrality and uniqueness arguments are written locally. No full-book or unavailable-original reading is claimed.
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- Plancherel support for SL2(R) Theorem
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Sources
- Bachir Bekka and Pierre de la Harpe, Unitary Representations of Groups, Duals, and Characters (arXiv:1912.07262v1, 16 December 2019; author-hosted complete book draft) (standard reference, not scraped)
- Bruce Blackadar, Operator Algebras: Theory of C*-Algebras and von Neumann Algebras (author-hosted complete text) (standard reference, not scraped)