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Cartan motion groups: regularity of K-finite matrix coefficients

Group Theory 2026-03-25 v1 Functional Analysis Representation Theory

Abstract

If GG is a connected semisimple Lie group with finite center and KK is a maximal compact subgroup of G, then the Lie algebra of GG admits a Cartan decomposition g=kp\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{k}\oplus\mathfrak{p}. This allows us to define the Cartan motion group H=pKH=\mathfrak{p}\rtimes K. In this paper, we study the regularity of KK-finite matrix coefficients of unitary representations of HH. We prove that the optimal exponent κ(G)\kappa(G) for which all such coefficients are κ(G)\kappa(G)-H\"older continuous coincides with the optimal regularity of all KK-finite coefficients of the group GG itself. Our approach relies on stationary phase techniques that were previously employed by the author to study regularity in the setting of (G,K)(G,K). Furthermore, we provide a general framework to reduce the question of regularity from KK-finite coefficients to KK-bi-invariant coefficients.

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@article{arxiv.2502.04368,
  title  = {Cartan motion groups: regularity of K-finite matrix coefficients},
  author = {Guillaume Dumas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.04368},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

21 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2409.07944