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Fourier Transform of Schwartz Algebras on Groups in the Harish-Chandra class

Representation Theory 2019-06-28 v2

Abstract

It is well-known that the Harish-Chandra transform, fHf,f\mapsto\mathcal{H}f, is a topological isomorphism of the spherical (Schwartz) convolution algebra Cp(G//K)\mathcal{C}^{p}(G//K) (where KK is a maximal compact subgroup of any arbitrarily chosen group GG in the Harish-Chandra class and 0<p20<p\leq2) onto the (Schwartz) multiplication algebra Zˉ(Fϵ)\bar{\mathcal{Z}}({\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon}) (of w\mathfrak{w}-invariant members of Z(Fϵ),\mathcal{Z}({\mathfrak{F}}^{\epsilon}), with ϵ=(2/p)1\epsilon=(2/p)-1). The same cannot however be said of the full Schwartz convolution algebra Cp(G),\mathcal{C}^{p}(G), except for few specific examples of groups (notably G=SL(2,R)G=SL(2,\mathbb{R})) and for some notable values of pp (with restrictions on GG and/or on Cp(G)\mathcal{C}^{p}(G)). Nevertheless the full Harish-Chandra Plancherel formula on GG is known for all of C2(G)=:C(G).\mathcal{C}^{2}(G)=:\mathcal{C}(G). In order to then understand the structure of Harish-Chandra transform more clearly and to compute the image of Cp(G)\mathcal{C}^{p}(G) under it (without any restriction) we derive an absolutely convergent series expansion (in terms of known functions) for the Harish-Chandra transform by an application of the full Plancherel formula on G.G. This leads to a computation of the image of C(G)\mathcal{C}(G) under the Harish-Chandra transform which may be seen as a concrete realization of Arthur's result and be easily extended to all of Cp(G)\mathcal{C}^{p}(G) in much the same way as it is known in the work of Trombi and Varadarajan.

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@article{arxiv.1706.09044,
  title  = {Fourier Transform of Schwartz Algebras on Groups in the Harish-Chandra class},
  author = {Olufemi O. Oyadare},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.09044},
  year   = {2019}
}

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