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Monotone functions are differentiable a.e. and Hilbert's Fifth Problem: what's the connection?
In Andrew Gleason's interview for More Mathematical People, there is the following exchange concerning Gleason's work on Hilbert's fifth problem on whether every locally Euclidean topological group is ...
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Models for Eilenberg-MacLane space K(Z,3)
Denote by $U(H)$ and $PU(H)$ the unitary and projective unitary groups on an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H$. Recall that $U(H)$ is contractible by Kuiper's theorem and that $PU(H)$ is a $K(Z,2)...
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Characters of irreducible unitary representations of the Poincaré group
Consider Poincare group $\mathrm{ISO}(1,d-1)$, given by $\mathbb R^{1,d-1}\rtimes SO(1,d-1)$ in signature $(1,d-1)$, for some odd $d \geq 3$.
Denote the universal cover of the component connected to ...
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Fell's trick for Lie groups
Let $\Gamma$ be a countable discrete group and $\lambda$ the left regular representation of $\Gamma$ on $l^2(\Gamma)$. Let $\rho:\Gamma\rightarrow U(H)$ be a unitary representation of $\Gamma$ on some ...
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Do all unitary representations weakly converge to zero at infinity?
Question. Let $G$ be a non-compact, finite dimensional Lie group, and let $(X, \mu)$ be a Radon measure space. Let $$\rho\colon G\to U(L^2(X))$$
be a unitary, strongly continuous, representation. Is ...
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Structure of a group acting on a Hilbert space
Assume a group $G$ acts faithfully by isometries on a separable infinite dimensional Hilbert space $H$ in such a way that the orbits are closed and the quotient $H/G$ is isometric to a finite ...
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Araki's proof of simple connectedness of the restricted orthogonal group
I am trying to understand Araki's proof of the statement that the restricted orthogonal group of a Hilbert space with a unitary structure is simply connected. This proof starts on page 114 of these ...
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Theorem of Kuiper for Hilbert spaces with group action
Let $H$ be an infinite dimensional separable complex Hilbert space with Lie group action (I am mostly interested in the case $S^1$). Let $\text{Gl}_{G}(H)$ be the space of invertible, bounded and ...
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The density of the image of a unitary irrep (a generalization of Burnside's theorem)
I asked the following question on MSE and never got an answer.
I am curious if there are any generalizations of Burnside's theorem (If $(\pi,V)$ is irreducible, then $\pi(G)$ spans $\operatorname{End}(...
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Equivariant exponential map on Hilbert manifolds
Let $M$ be a Hilbert Riemannian manifold and $G$ a finite-dimensional Lie group acting on $M$. It is well-known that when $M$, too, is finite-dimensional
$$\exp_p: U \subset T_pM \rightarrow \exp_p(U) ...
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A question on projective unitary representation of a Lie group
$\DeclareMathOperator\GL{GL}$Let $\mathcal{H}$ be a Hilbert space and $\GL(\mathcal{H})$ denote the group of invertible linear transformations of $\mathcal{H}$. Assume that $G=\{ f:\mathbb{P}\mathcal{...
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Lie algebra action Whittaker model
Let $(\pi, H)$ be an irreducible unitary generic representation of $G=\operatorname{GL}(r,\mathbb{C})$ and let $H^{\infty}$ be its subspace of smooth vectors. Let $W :G\to\mathbb{C} $ be the Whittaker ...
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Is $GL_{S^1}(H)$ (for $H$ Hilbert space ) path-connected?
Due to the negative answer to my last question I want to know if at least the following is true:
Let H be an infinite dimensional separable complex Hilbert space with $S^1$-action. Let $\text{Gl}_{S^...
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