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Representations of the weak Weyl commutation relation

Operator Algebras 2022-05-13 v2

Abstract

Let GG be a locally compact abelian group with Pontraygin dual G^\widehat{G}. Suppose PP is a closed subsemigroup of GG containing the identity element 00. We assume that PP has dense interior and PP generates GG. Let U:={Uχ}χG^U:=\{U_{\chi}\}_{\chi \in \widehat{G}} be a strongly continuous group of unitaries and let V:={Va}aPV:=\{V_{a}\}_{a \in P} be a strongly continuous semigroup of isometries. We call (U,V)(U,V) a weak Weyl pair if UχVa=χ(a)VaUχ U_{\chi}V_{a}=\chi(a)V_{a}U_{\chi} for every χG^\chi \in \widehat{G} and for every aPa \in P. We work out the representation theory (the factorial and the irreducible representations) of the above commutation relation under the assumption that {VaVa:aP}\{V_{a}V_{a}^{*}:a \in P\} is a commuting family of projections. Not only does this generalise the results of [4] and [5], our proof brings out the Morita equivalence that lies behind the results. For P=[0,)×[0,)P=[0,\infty)\times [0,\infty), we demonstrate that if we drop the commutativity assumption on the range projections, then the representation theory of the weak Weyl commutation relation becomes very complicated.

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@article{arxiv.2205.03657,
  title  = {Representations of the weak Weyl commutation relation},
  author = {S. Sundar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.03657},
  year   = {2022}
}
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