Heisenberg-Modulation Spaces at the Crossroads of Coorbit Theory and Decomposition Space Theory

Abstract

We show that generalised time-frequency shifts on the Heisenberg group $\mathbf{H}_n \cong \mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$, realised as a unitary irreducible representation of a nilpotent Lie group acting on $L^{2}(\mathbf{H}_n)$, give rise to a novel type of function spaces on $\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}$. The representation we employ is the generic unitary irreducible representation of the $3$-step nilpotent Dynin-Folland group. In doing so, we answer the question whether representations of nilpotent Lie groups ever yield coorbit spaces distinct from the classical modulation spaces $M^{\mathbf{p}, \mathbf{q}}_{\mathbf{v}}(\mathbb{R}^{2n+1}), n \in \mathbb{N}$, and also introduce a new member to the zoo of decomposition spaces. As our analysis and proof of novelty make heavy use of coorbit theory and decomposition space theory, in particular Voigtlaender's recent contributions to the latter, we give a complete classification of the unitary irreducible representations of the Dynin-Folland group and also characterise the coorbit spaces related to the non-generic unitary irreducible representations.