Unitary Representations, Positive Type and GNS — Examples
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1 · Prerequisites
Abstract Algebra
- Binary Operations, Monoids, Groups and Subgroups
- Cosets, Index and Lagrange's Theorem
- Divisibility, Euclidean Domains, Principal Ideal Domains and Unique Factorisation
- Group Actions, Orbits, Stabilisers and Cayley's Theorem
- Ideals, Quotient Rings and the Isomorphism Theorems for Rings
- Normal Subgroups and Quotient Groups
- Polynomial Rings, the Division Algorithm and Roots
- Rings, Subrings, Integral Domains and Fields
- Simple Field Extensions and the Construction of the Complex Numbers
Combinatorics
Functional Analysis
Linear Algebra
- Complexification, Realification and Real Structures
- Determinants of Matrices over a Commutative Ring
- Dual Spaces, Bilinear and Quadratic Forms, and Sylvester's Law of Inertia
- Gaussian Elimination, Elementary Matrices and Reduced Row Echelon Form
- Inner Product Spaces, Gram-Schmidt, Projections and Adjoints
- Linear Independence, Bases and Dimension
- Linear Transformations, Rank-Nullity and Quotient Spaces
- Matrices, the Matrix of a Linear Map, and Change of Basis
- Triangularisation, Generalised Eigenspaces and Jordan Canonical Form
- Vector Spaces, Linear Subspaces, Span and Direct Sums
Measure Theory
- Complex Lp Spaces and Test-Function Conventions
- Density Separability and Convolution in Lᵖ
- Lebesgue Measure on Euclidean Space
- Measurable Functions and Simple Approximation
- Measures and Their Basic Properties
- Modes of Convergence Egorov and Lusin
- Outer Measure and the Caratheodory Extension Theorem
- Pointwise Extended-Real Function Products
- Product Measures and the Fubini Tonelli Theorems
- Sigma Algebras and Borel Sets
- The Lebesgue and Riemann Integrals Compared
- The Lebesgue Integral and the Convergence Theorems
- The Lᵖ Spaces Holder Minkowski and Riesz Fischer
Real Analysis
- Absolute and Conditional Convergence; Rearrangement; Products
- Areas of Elementary Plane Figures
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Cauchy Sequences
- Construction of the Real Numbers via Dedekind Cuts
- Continuity, IVT, EVT, and Uniform Continuity
- Countability and Uncountability
- Foundations of the Real Numbers for Analysis
- Fubini and Change of Variables
- Fundamental Trigonometric Identities
- Improper and Parameter-Dependent Multiple Integrals
- Improper Integrals
- Limits of Real Functions
- limsup, liminf, and Subsequential Limits
- Mixed Partials, Taylor Formulae, and Extrema
- Monotone Functions, Discontinuities, and Continuity Sets
- Monotone Sequences, Bolzano-Weierstrass, and Cauchy Completeness
- Power Series and Real-Analytic Functions
- Properties of the Integral and the Working FTC
- Rⁿ as a Normed Space; Vector-Valued Functions
- Roots, Rational Powers, and Classical Inequalities
- Sequences and Limits
- Sequences and Series of Functions; Uniform Convergence
- Series: Convergence and the Nonnegative Tests
- Sine, Cosine, and the Definition of Pi
- Suprema and Infima
- The Cantor Set, Baire Category, and Measure Zero in ℝ
- The Complex Exponential and Euler's Formula
- The Derivative and the Mean Value Theorems
- The Exponential Function
- The Inverse and Implicit Function Theorems
- The Logarithm and General Powers
- The Riemann Integral in Rᵐ and Jordan Content
- The Riemann Integral: Definition and Integrability
- The Total Derivative in ℝᵐ → ℝⁿ
- Topology of ℝ
Representation Theory of Groups
Set Theory
Topology
- Compactness
- Compactness in Metric Spaces
- Completeness, Completion, and Uniform Continuity
- Convergence: Nets and Filters
- Countability Axioms and Cardinal Functions
- Metric Spaces
- Partitions of Unity and Paracompactness
- Separation Axioms: the Hierarchy
- Subspaces, Products, and Quotients
- The Topology of Euclidean Space
- Topological Spaces and Continuity
- Uniform Spaces: the Three Definitions
2 · Logical flowchart
3 · Items
Example
Positive type on a discrete group: the identity mass, characters, and the regular GNS model
Example
GNS representation of a continuous unitary character
Example
The positive-type Gaussian on the real line and its cyclic model
Counterexample
A bounded continuous normalized function that is not of positive type
Sources
- Bachir Bekka and Pierre de la Harpe, Unitary Representations of Groups, Duals, and Characters, §1.B
- Bekka, de la Harpe and Valette, Kazhdan's Property (T), Appendix C
- Bekka and de la Harpe, Unitary Representations of Groups, Duals, and Characters, Example 1.B.7(1) and Construction 1.B.5, Chapter 1 §1.B, printed pp. 27–28
- Bekka, de la Harpe and Valette, Kazhdan's Property (T), Theorem C.4.10, Appendix C §C.4
- Semyon Dyatlov, Lecture notes for 18.155: distributions, elliptic regularity, and applications to PDEs
- Bekka, de la Harpe and Valette, Kazhdan's Property (T)
- Bachir Bekka and Pierre de la Harpe, Unitary Representations of Groups, Duals, and Characters
- Bekka, de la Harpe and Valette, Kazhdan's Property (T), Definition C.4.1 and Proposition C.4.2, Appendix C, printed pp. 373–374
- Emmanuel Kowalski, An Introduction to the Representation Theory of Groups, §3.4