Metaplectic Groups and Segal Algebras

These notes give an account of recent work in harmonic analysis dealing with the analytical foundations of A. Weil's theory of metaplectic groups. It is shown that Weil's main theorem holds for a class of functions (a certain Segal algebra) larger than th

  • PDF / 7,811,626 Bytes
  • 141 Pages / 468 x 684 pts Page_size
  • 17 Downloads / 247 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


1382 Hans Reiter

Metaplectic Groups and Segal Algebras

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg NewYork London Paris Tokyo Hong Kong

Author

Hans Reiter Institut fur Mathematik der Universitat Strudlhofgasse 4, 1090 Vienna, Austria

Mathematics Subject lJlaSSITlCatlOn usso): 4::lA'/U, 22LJ99, 11 R56 ISBN 3-540-51417-1 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York ISBN 0-387-51417-1 Springer-Verlag New York Berlin Heidelberg

This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in other ways, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is only permitted under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its version of June 24, 1985, and a copyright fee must always be paid. Violations fall under the prosecution act of the German Copyright Law.

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1989 Printed in Germany Printing and binding: Druckhaus Beltz, Hemsbach/Bergstr. 2146/3140-543210 - Printed on acid-free paper

Herrn Professor Andre Weil in Verehrung und Dankbarkeit

This work originated in 1976 in an attempt to understand the proof, and the nature, moir

of the principal result,

'Sur certains

143­211,

1964).

d o pe r­a t e ur­s

groupes

But

the

t

scope

soon

theorem 6,

in A. Weil's me-

unitaires'

(Acta Math.

widened

when

it

that there is an intrinsic connexion between Weil's and a certain Segal algebra.

became

1l..1.

apparent

metaplectic group

Another task was to eliminate some diffi-

culties of an analytical nature in Weil's work, self in his Collected Papers (Springer,

1980),

hinted at by Weil himvol.

III,

p.445.

These notes may be considered as an addition to the author's book 'Classical Harmonic Analysis and Locally Compact Groups' versi ty Press, as a

rule,

1968).

full

Wei I' s

proofs are provided,

not been published before or differs, print.

(Oxford Uni-

theory is taken up at the beginning and. especially when the in some respect,

result

has

from those

in

Ample references to the literature are given to faci I i tate the

reader's task,

especially with regard to comparison.

Some new problems

that arise are pointed out. Some of the topics treated here were presented in seminars at University of Vienna

in

1978 and

in 1982,

but

since

then

the

the

whole

matter has undergone profound changes. A summary of the main results has appeared Acad.

Sci.

Paris,

Professor J. A short,

305 (1),

(Springer

241­243

(1987),

in a

Note

in the C. R.

and I am grateful

to

Dieudonne for presenting it to the Academie des Sciences.

non­technical

Proceedings

of LNM

cordially for Dr.

vol.

the

1359, the

survey

1987

of

some

Luxembourg

pp.238­241).

invitation to

underlying

Symposium thank

the symposium.

Marc Burger for permission to

on

ideas

Professor I

is

Harmonic

in

the

Analysis

J. ­Po

also wish to

Pier thank

in