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Ami Viselter

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arXiv2026

Amenability of locally compact quantum groups via the long-time behavior of convolution semigroups

We establish a simple characterization of amenability of second countable locally compact quantum groups $\mathbb{G}$ in terms of the long-time behavior of convolution semigroups of states on $\mathbb{G}$. We then investigate the deeper problem of combining amenability of $\mathbb{G}$ with other approximation properties of the dual quantum group $\hat{\mathbb{G}}$. Specifically, we characterize the combination of ("strong") amenability of $\mathbb{G}$ with either the failure of property (T) or the presence of the Haagerup property for $\hat{\mathbb{G}}$. These results, which appear to be new even in the classical setting of locally compact groups, produce convolution semigroups on $\mathbb{G}$ whose behavior is controlled both as time goes to zero and as time goes to infinity.

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arXiv2024

Convolution semigroups on Rieffel deformations of locally compact quantum groups

Consider a locally compact quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ with a closed classical abelian subgroup $Γ$ equipped with a $2$-cocycle $Ψ:\hatΓ\times\hatΓ\to\mathbb{C}$. We study in detail the associated Rieffel deformation $\mathbb{G}^Ψ$ and establish a canonical correspondence between $Γ$-invariant convolution semigroups of states on $\mathbb{G}$ and on $\mathbb{G}^Ψ$.

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arXiv2021

Actions, quotients and lattices of locally compact quantum groups

We prove a number of property (T) permanence results for locally compact quantum groups under exact sequences and the presence of invariant states, analogous to their classical versions. Along the way we characterize the existence of invariant weights on quantum homogeneous spaces of quotient type, and relate invariant states for LCQG actions on von Neumann algebras to invariant vectors in canonical unitary implementations, providing an application to amenability. Finally, we introduce a notion of lattice in a locally compact quantum group, noting examples provided by Drinfeld doubles of compact quantum groups. We show that property (T) lifts from a lattice to the ambient LCQG, just as it does classically, thus obtaining new examples of non-classical, non-compact, non-discrete LCQGs with property (T).

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arXiv2019

Generating functionals for locally compact quantum groups

Every symmetric generating functional of a convolution semigroup of states on a locally compact quantum group is shown to admit a dense unital $*$-subalgebra with core-like properties in its domain. On the other hand we prove that every normalised, symmetric, hermitian conditionally positive functional on a dense $*$-subalgebra of the unitisation of the universal C$^*$-algebra of a locally compact quantum group, satisfying certain technical conditions, extends in a canonical way to a generating functional. Some consequences of these results are outlined, notably those related to constructing cocycles out of convolution semigroups.

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arXiv2018

Convolution semigroups on locally compact quantum groups and noncommutative Dirichlet forms

The subject of this paper is the study of convolution semigroups of states on a locally compact quantum group, generalising classical families of distributions of a Lévy process on a locally compact group. In particular a definitive one-to-one correspondence between symmetric convolution semigroups of states and noncommutative Dirichlet forms satisfying the natural translation invariance property is established, extending earlier partial results and providing a powerful tool to analyse such semigroups. This is then applied to provide new characterisations of the Haagerup Property and Property (T) for locally compact quantum groups, and some examples are presented. The proofs of the main theorems require developing certain general results concerning Haagerup's $L^{p}$-spaces.

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arXiv2017

Amenability of locally compact quantum groups and their unitary co-representations

We prove that amenability of a unitary co-representation $U$ of a locally compact quantum group passes to unitary co-representations that weakly contain $U$. This generalizes a result of Bekka, and answers affirmatively a question of Bédos, Conti and Tuset. As a corollary, we extend to locally compact quantum groups a result of the first-named author, which characterizes amenability of a locally compact group $G$ by nuclearity of the reduced group $C^{*}$-algebra $C_{r}^{*}(G)$ and an additional condition.

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arXiv2017

Around Property (T) for quantum groups

We study Property (T) for locally compact quantum groups, providing several new characterisations, especially related to operator algebraic ergodic theory. Quantum Property (T) is described in terms of the existence of various Kazhdan type pairs, and some earlier structural results of Kyed, Chen and Ng are strengthened and generalised. For second countable discrete unimodular quantum groups with low duals Property (T) is shown to be equivalent to Property (T)$^{1,1}$ of Bekka and Valette. This is used to extend to this class of quantum groups classical theorems on 'typical' representations (due to Kerr and Pichot), and on connections of Property (T) with spectral gaps (due to Li and Ng) and with strong ergodicity of weakly mixing actions on a particular von Neumann algebra (due to Connes and Weiss). Finally we discuss in the Appendix equivalent characterisations of the notion of a quantum group morphism with dense image.

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arXiv2015

Weak mixing for locally compact quantum groups

We generalize the notion of weakly mixing unitary representations to locally compact quantum groups, introducing suitable extensions of all standard characterizations of weak mixing to this setting. These results are used to complement the noncommutative Jacobs-de Leeuw-Glicksberg splitting theorem of Runde and the author ["Ergodic theory for quantum semigroups", J. Lond. Math. Soc. (2) 89 (2014) 941-959]. Furthermore, a relation between mixing and weak mixing of state-preserving actions of discrete quantum groups and the properties of certain inclusions of von Neumann algebras, which is known for discrete groups, is demonstrated.

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arXiv2015

On positive definiteness over locally compact quantum groups

The notion of positive-definite functions over locally compact quantum groups was recently introduced and studied by Daws and Salmi. Based on this work, we generalize various well-known results about positive-definite functions over groups to the quantum framework. Among these are theorems on "square roots" of positive-definite functions, comparison of various topologies, positive-definite measures and characterizations of amenability, and the separation property with respect to compact quantum subgroups.

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arXiv2014

Ergodic theory for quantum semigroups

Recent results of L. Zsido, based on his previous work with C. P. Niculescu and A. Stroh, on actions of topological semigroups on von Neumann algebras, give a Jacobs-de Leeuw-Glicksberg splitting theorem at the von Neumann algebra (rather than Hilbert space) level. We generalize this to the framework of actions of quantum semigroups, namely Hopf-von Neumann algebras. To this end, we introduce and study a notion of almost periodic vectors and operators that is suitable for our setting.

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arXiv2012

A note on amenability of locally compact quantum groups

In this short note we introduce a notion called "quantum injectivity" of locally compact quantum groups, and prove that it is equivalent to amenability of the dual. Particularly, this provides a new characterization of amenability of locally compact groups.

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arXiv2012

Generalized Widder Theorem via fractional moments

We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the representability of a function as the classical multidimensional Laplace transform, when the support of the representing measure is contained in some generalized semi-algebraic set. This is done by employing a method of Putinar and Vasilescu [Putinar, M. and Vasilescu, F.-H., Solving moment problems by dimensional extension, Ann. of Math. (2) 149 (1999), no. 3, 1087-1107] for the corresponding multidimensional moment problem.

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arXiv2011

Cuntz-Pimsner algebras for subproduct systems

In this paper we generalize the notion of Cuntz-Pimsner algebras of $C^*$-correspondences to the setting of subproduct systems. The construction is justified in several ways, including the Morita equivalence of the operator algebras under suitable conditions, and examples are provided to illustrate its naturality. We also demonstrate why some features of the Cuntz-Pimsner algebras of $C^*$-correspondences fail to generalize to our setting, and discuss what we have instead.

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arXiv2010

Covariant representations of subproduct systems

A celebrated theorem of Pimsner states that a covariant representation $T$ of a $C^*$-correspondence $E$ extends to a $C^*$-representation of the Toeplitz algebra of $E$ if and only if $T$ is isometric. This paper is mainly concerned with finding conditions for a covariant representation of a \emph{subproduct system} to extend to a $C^*$-representation of the Toeplitz algebra. This framework is much more general than the former. We are able to find sufficient conditions, and show that in important special cases, they are also necessary. Further results include the universality of the tensor algebra, dilations of completely contractive covariant representations, Wold decompositions and von Neumann inequalities.

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