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Topological group actions by group automorphisms and Banach representations

Functional Analysis 2023-12-15 v7 Dynamical Systems General Topology

Abstract

We study Banach representability for actions of topological groups on groups by automorphisms (in particular, actions of groups on itself by conjugations). Every such action is Banach representable on some Banach space. The natural question is to examine when we can find representations on low complexity Banach spaces. In contrast to the standard left action of a locally compact second countable group GG on itself, the conjugation action need not be reflexively representable even for SL2(R)\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R}). The conjugation action of SLn(R)\mathrm{SL}_n(\mathbb{R}) is not Asplund representable for every n4n \geq 4. The linear action of GL(n,R)\mathrm{GL}(n,\mathbb{R}) on Rn\mathbb{R}^n, for every n2n \geq 2, is not representable on Asplund Banach spaces. On the other hand, this action is representable on a Rosenthal Banach space (not containing an isomorphic copy of l1l_1). The conjugation action of a locally compact group need not be Rosenthal representable (even for Lie groups). This is unclear for SL2(R)\mathrm{SL}_2(\mathbb{R}). As a byproduct we obtain some counterexamples about Banach representations of homogeneous GG-actions G/HG/H.

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@article{arxiv.2110.01386,
  title  = {Topological group actions by group automorphisms and Banach representations},
  author = {Michael Megrelishvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.01386},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

16 pages. Accepted in Forum Mathem. (2022)

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