Non-Wiener groups with a Gelfand pair
Functional Analysis
2026-02-25 v1 Group Theory
Representation Theory
Abstract
Let be a non-amenable locally compact group and a compact subgroup of such that is a Gelfand pair. We show that if admits a suitable boundary representation which is topologically irreducible and not unitarizable, then is not a Wiener group in the sense that its Fourier transform does not satisfy the analogue of Wiener's Tauberian theorem. As an application, we show that if is a closed non-compact boundary transitive group of automorphisms of a connected locally finite graph with infinitely many ends, or a split reductive algebraic group over a non-archimedean local field, then is not Wiener.
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@article{arxiv.2602.20364,
title = {Non-Wiener groups with a Gelfand pair},
author = {Max Carter and Jared T. White},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.20364},
year = {2026}
}
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21 pages