On a theorem of Fell

Abstract:

Fell has proved that the process of inducing representations of a locally compact group from representations of closed subgroups is a continuous process if topologies are defined on the spaces of representations in the right way. As a corollary he shows that inducing preserves weak containment. This paper generalizes Fell’s results to twisted group algebras. These algebras generalize the idea of the group algebra of a group extension, and the concept of induced representation extends in a natural way. We show that Fell’s results will hold if the “cocycle pair” defining the twisting of the algebra is sufficiently continuous.