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The behavior of Fourier transforms for nilpotent Lie groups

Author(s): Ronald L. Lipsman; Jonathan Rosenberg
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 348 (1996), 1031-1050.
MSC (1991): Primary 22E27; Secondary 43A30, 44A12, 22D25
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Abstract: We study weak analogues of the Paley-Wiener Theorem for both the scalar-valued and the operator-valued Fourier transforms on a nilpotent Lie group $G$. Such theorems should assert that the appropriate Fourier transform of a function or distribution of compact support on $G$ extends to be ``holomorphic'' on an appropriate complexification of (a part of) $\hat G$. We prove the weak scalar-valued Paley-Wiener Theorem for some nilpotent Lie groups but show that it is false in general. We also prove a weak operator-valued Paley-Wiener Theorem for arbitrary nilpotent Lie groups, which in turn establishes the truth of a conjecture of Moss. Finally, we prove a conjecture about Dixmier-Douady invariants of continuous-trace subquotients of $C^{*}(G)$ when $G$ is two-step nilpotent.

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Additional Information:

Ronald L. Lipsman
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: rll@math.umd.edu

Jonathan Rosenberg
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742
Email: jmr@math.umd.edu

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9947-96-01583-8
PII: S 0002-9947(96)01583-8
Keywords: Nilpotent Lie group, scalar-valued Fourier transform, operator-valued Fourier transform, Paley-Wiener Theorem, Radon transform, Dixmier-Douady class
Received by editor(s): September 4, 1994
Additional Notes: Both authors were partially supported by NSF grant DMS-92-25063.
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society




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