On spectra of Koopman, groupoid and quasi-regular representations

Our aim is to find the irreducibility criteria for the Koopman representation, when the group acts on some space with a measure (Conjecture 1.5). Some general necessary conditions of the irreducibility of this representation are established. In the particular case of the group ${\rm GL}_0(2\infty,{\mathbb R})$ $= \varinjlim_{n}{\rm GL}(2n-1,{\mathbb R})$, the inductive limit of the general linear groups we prove that these conditions are also the necessary ones. The correspon...

For the class of continuous, measure-preserving automorphisms on compact metric spaces, a procedure is proposed for constructing a sequence of finite-dimensional approximations to the associated Koopman operator on a Hilbert space. These finite-dimensional approximations are obtained from the so-called "periodic approximation" of the underlying automorphism and take the form of permutation operators. Results are established on how these discretizations approximate the Koopman...

Let $G$ be a discrete group with property (T). It is a standard fact that, in a unitary representation of $G$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}$, almost invariant vectors are close to invariant vectors, in a quantitative way. We begin by showing that, if a unitary representation has some vector whose coefficient function is close to a coefficient function of some finite-dimensional unitary representation $\sigma$, then the vector is close to a sub-representation isomorphic to $...

In this paper we introduce an intrinsic version of the classical induction of representations for a subgroup $H$ of a (finite) group $G$, called here {\em geometric induction}, which associates to any, not necessarily transitive, $G$-set $X$ and any representation of the action groupoid $A(G,X)$ associated to $G$ and $X$, a representation of the group $G$. We show that geometric induction, applied to one dimensional characters of the action groupoid of a suitable $G$-set $X$ ...

We describe representations of groupoid C*-algebras on Hilbert modules over arbitrary C*-algebras by a universal property. For Hilbert space representations, our universal property is equivalent to Renault's Integration-Disintegration Theorem. For a locally compact group, it is related to the automatic continuity of measurable group representations. It implies known descriptions of groupoid C*-algebras as crossed products for \'etale groupoids and transformation groupoids of ...

Let $E$ be a subset of positive integers such that $E\cap\{1,2\}\ne\emptyset$. A weakly mixing finite measure preserving flow $T=(T_t)_{t\in\Bbb R}$ is constructed such that the set of spectral multiplicities (of the corresponding Koopman unitary representation generated by $T$) is $E$. Moreover, for each non-zero $t\in\Bbb R$, the set of spectral multiplicities of the transformation $T_t$ is also $E$. These results are partly extended to actions of some other locally compa...

Answering a question of A. Vershik we construct two non-weakly isomorphic ergodic automorphisms for which the associated unitary (Koopman) representations are Markov quasi-similar. We also discuss metric invariants of Markov quasi-similarity in the class of ergodic automorphisms.

Let $\Gamma$ be a finitely generated group acting by probability measure preserving maps on the standard Borel space $(X,\mu)$. We show that if $H\leq\Gamma$ is a subgroup with relative spectral radius greater than the global spectral radius of the action, then $H$ acts with finitely many ergodic components and spectral gap on $(X,\mu)$. This answers a question of Shalom who proved this for normal subgroups.

In this article, we generalize to the case of measured quantum groupoids on a finite basis some important results concerning actions of locally compact quantum groups on C*-algebras [S. Baaj, G. Skandalis and S. Vaes, 2003]. Let $\cal G$ be a measured quantum groupoid on a finite basis. We prove that if $\cal G$ is regular, then any weakly continuous action of $\cal G$ on a C*-algebra is necessarily strongly continuous. Following [S. Baaj and G. Skandalis, 1989], we introduce...

It is a well-known result of Eymard that the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra of a locally compact group $G$ can be identified with the dual of the group $\cs$ $C^{*}(G)$. A corresponding result for a locally compact groupoid $G$ has been investigated by Renault, Ramsay and Walter. We show that the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra $B_{\mu}(G)$ of $G$ (with respect to a quasi-invariant measure $\mu$ on the unit space $X$ of $G$) can be characterized in operator space terms as the dual of th...