The Space of Bounded Spherical Functions on the Free 2-Step Nilpotent Lie Group |
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Authors: | Chal Benson Gail Ratcliff |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA |
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Abstract: | Let N be a connected and simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group and let K be a compact subgroup of Aut(N). We say that (K, N) is a Gelfand pair when the set of integrable K-invariant functions on N forms an abelian algebra under convolution. In this paper we construct a one-to-one correspondence between the set Δ(K, N) of bounded spherical functions for such a Gelfand pair and a set of K-orbits in the dual of the Lie algebra for N. The construction involves an application of the Orbit Method to spherical representations of K ⋉ N. We conjecture that the correspondence is a homeomorphism. Our main result shows that this is the case for the Gelfand pair given by the action of the orthogonal
group on the free 2-step nilpotent Lie group. In addition, we show how to embed the space Δ(K, N) for this example in a Euclidean space by taking eigenvalues for an explicit set of invariant differential operators. These
results provide geometric models for the space of bounded spherical functions on the free 2-step group. |
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