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Koopman representations for positive definite functions

Group Theory 2024-10-22 v2 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We show that for any locally compact second countable group GG and any continuous positive definite function ϕ:GC\phi:G\rightarrow\mathbb{C}, there exists an ergodic measure preserving system (X,B,μ,{Tg}gG)(X,\mathscr{B},\mu,\{T_g\}_{g \in G}) and a function fL2(X,μ)f \in L^2(X,\mu) for which ϕ(g)=Tgf,f\phi(g) = \langle T_gf,f\rangle. We also show that if GG is a countably infinite abelian group, then there exists a (not necessarily ergodic) measure preserving system (X,B,μ,{Tg}gG)(X,\mathscr{B},\mu,\{T_g\}_{g \in G}) and a function fL2(X,μ)f \in L^2(X,\mu) with f=ϕ(0)|f| = \phi(0) and ϕ(g)=Tgf,f\phi(g) = \langle T_gf,f\rangle.

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@article{arxiv.2310.19386,
  title  = {Koopman representations for positive definite functions},
  author = {Sohail Farhangi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19386},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

This article is now superseded by arXiv:2409.00806

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