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Publications and source records attributed to Ingrid Beltita.
We show the existence of a coherent frame in the orbit of a connected, simply connected unimodular solvable Lie group of exponential growth for which the lower Beurling density of its index set is zero.
For every unitary irreducible representation of a Lie group we prove that the representation Hilbert space is the only nonzero invariant Hilbert space of distribution vectors.
We verify the conjecture on continuous-trace subquotients for $C^*$-algebras of nilpotent linear dynamical systems, where by linear dynamical system we mean a continuous action of the additive group of real numbers by linear maps on a finite-dimensional real vector space. In addition, we show that the dimension of the ambient vector space can be recovered from the corresponding $C^*$-algebra and, if the action is nilpotent of degree two, the corresponding group is $C^*$-rigid within the class of 1-connected nilpotent Lie groups with coadjoint orbits of dimension $\le 2$.
We prove a strong rigidity property of the Heisenberg groups, that is, they can be distinguished from any other 1-connected Lie groups via their unitary dual spaces, in particular via the Morita equivalence class of their group $C^*$-algebras.
We prove that if a connected and simply connected Lie group $G$ admits connected closed normal subgroups $G_1\subseteq G_2\subseteq \cdots \subseteq G_m=G$ with $\dim G_j=j$ for $j=1,\dots,m$, then its group $C^*$-algebra has closed two-sided ideals $\{0\}=\mathcal{J}_0\subseteq \mathcal{J}_1\subseteq\cdots\subseteq\mathcal{J}_n=C^*(G)$ with $\mathcal{J}_j/\mathcal{J}_{j-1}\simeq \mathcal{C}_0(Γ_j,\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{H}_j))$ for a suitable locally compact Hausdorff space $Γ_j$ and a separable complex Hilbert space $\mathcal{H}_j$, where $\mathcal{C}_0(Γ_j,\cdot)$ denotes the continuous mappings on $Γ_j$ that vanish at infinity, and $\mathcal{K}(\mathcal{H}_j)$ is the $C^*$-algebra of compact operators on $\mathcal{H}_j$ for $j=1,\dots,n$.
We prove that the Heisenberg groups can be distinguished from the other connected and simply connected Lie groups via their group $C^*$-algebras. The main step of the proof is a characterization of the nilpotent Lie groups among the solvable Lie groups solely in terms of topological properties of their coadjoint orbits.
For an exponential Lie group $G$ and an irreducible unitary representation $(π,\mathcal{H}_π)$ of $G$, we consider the natural action defined by $π$ on the projective space of $\mathcal{H}_π$, and show that the stabilisers of this action coincide with the projective kernel of $π$. Using this, we prove that, if $G/\mathrm{pker}(π)$ is unimodular, then $π$ admits a symplectic projective orbit if and only if $π$ is square-integrable modulo its projective kernel $\mathrm{pker}(π)$.
We obtain a Lie theoretic intrinsic characterization of the connected and simply connected solvable Lie groups whose regular representation is a factor representation. When this is the case, the corresponding von Neumann algebras are isomorphic to the hyperfinite II$_\infty$ factor, and every Casimir function is constant. We thus obtain a family of geometric models for the standard representation of that factor. Finally, we show that the regular representation of any connected and simply connected solvable Lie group with open coadjoint orbits is always of type I, though the group needs not be of type I, and include some relevant examples.
We characterize the square-integrable representations of (connected, simply connected) solvable Lie groups in terms of the generalized orbits of the coadjoint action. We prove that the normal representations corresponding, via the Pukánszky correspondence, to open coadjoint orbits are type I, not necessarily square-integrable representations. We show that the quasi-equivalence classes of type I square-integrable representations are in bijection with the simply connected open coadjoint orbits, and the existence of an open coadjoint orbit guarantees the existence of a compact open subset of the space of primitive ideals of the group. When the nilradical has codimension 1, we prove that the isolated points of the primitive ideal space are always of type I. This is not always true for codimension greater than 2, as shown by specific examples of solvable Lie groups that have dense, but not locally closed, coadjoint orbits.
We study the link between stably finiteness and stably projectionless-ness for $C^*$-algebras of solvable Lie groups. We show that these two properties are equivalent if the dimension of the group is not divisible by $4$; otherwise, they are not necessarily equivalent. To provide examples proving the last assertion, we study exponential solvable Lie groups that have nonempty finite open sets in their unitary dual.
The Mautner groups are the 5-dimensional solvable Lie groups that have non-type-I factor representations. We show that their corresponding group $C^*$-algebras are quasi-standard and we describe the topology of their spaces of minimal primal ideals and Glimm ideals.
We study continuous selections of the set-valued map that takes every skew-symmetric bilinear form on a vector space to its corresponding set of maximal isotropic subspaces. Applications are made to establishing continuity properties of the Vergne polarizing subalgebras of completely solvable Lie algebras in terms of Schubert cells of suitable Grassmann manifolds.
We study the topology of orbits of dynamical systems defined by finite-dimensional representations of nilpotent Lie groups. Thus, the following dichotomy is established: either the interior of the set of regular points is dense in the representation space, or the complement of the set of regular points is dense, and then the interior of that complement is either empty or dense in the representation space. The regular points are by definition the points whose orbits are locally compact in their relative topology. We thus generalize some results from the recent literature on linear actions of abelian Lie groups. As an application, we determine the generalized $ax+b$-groups whose $C^*$-algebras are antiliminary, that is, no closed 2-sided ideal is type~I.
We give an explicit description of the tracial state simplex of the $C^*$-algebra $C^*(G)$ of an arbitrary connected, second countable, locally compact, solvable group $G$. We show that every tracial state of $C^*(G)$ lifts from a tracial state of the $C^*$-algebra of the abelianized group, and the intersection of the kernels of all the tracial states of $C^*(G)$ is a proper ideal unless $G$ is abelian. As a consequence, the $C^*$-algebra of a connected solvable nonabelian Lie group cannot embed into a simple unital AF-algebra.
We study simply connected Lie groups $G$ for which the hull-kernel topology of the primitive ideal space $\text{Prim}(G)$ of the group $C^*$-algebra $C^*(G)$ is $T_1$, that is, the finite subsets of $\text{Prim}(G)$ are closed. Thus, we prove that $C^*(G)$ is AF-embeddable. To this end, we show that if $G$ is solvable and its action on the centre of $[G, G]$ has at least one imaginary weight, then $\text{Prim}(G)$ has no nonempty quasi-compact open subsets. We prove in addition that connected locally compact groups with $T_1$ ideal spaces are strongly quasi-diagonal.
We investigate to what extent a nilpotent Lie group is determined by its $C^*$-algebra. We prove that, within the class of exponential Lie groups, direct products of Heisenberg groups with abelian Lie groups are uniquely determined even by their unitary dual, while nilpotent Lie groups of dimension $\le 5$ are uniquely determined by the Morita equivalence class of their $C^*$-algebras. We also find that this last property is shared by the filiform Lie groups and the $6$-dimensional free two-step nilpotent Lie group.
We establish a general CCR (liminarity) property for uniformly bounded irreducible representations of nilpotent Lie groups on reflexive Banach spaces, extending the well known property of unitary irreducible representations of these groups on Hilbert spaces. We also prove that this conclusion fails for many representations on non-reflexive Banach spaces. Our approach to these results blends the method of transference from abstract harmonic analysis and a systematic use of spaces of smooth vectors with respect to Lie group representations.
We characterize the solvable Lie groups of the form ${\mathbb R}^m\rtimes {\mathbb R}$, whose $C^*$-algebras are quasidiagonal. Using this result, we determine the connected simply connected solvable Lie groups of type~I whose $C^*$-algebras are strongly quasidiagonal. As a by-product, we give also examples of amenable Lie groups with non-quasidiagonal $C^*$-algebras.