Infinite-dimensional $p$-adic groups, semigroups of double cosets, and inner functions on Bruhat--Tits builldings
We construct $p$-adic analogs of operator colligations and their characteristic functions. Consider a $p$-adic group $G=GL(α+k\infty, Q_p)$, its subgroup $L=O(k\infty,Z_p)$, and the subgroup $K=O(\infty,Z_p)$ embedded to $L$ diagonally. We show that double cosets $Γ= K\setminus G/K$ admit a structure of a semigroup, $Γ$ acts naturally in $K$-fixed vectors of unitary representations of $G$. For each double coset we assign a 'characteristic function', which sends a certain Bruhat--Tits building to another building (buildings are finite-dimensional); image of the distinguished boundary is contained in the distinguished boundary. The latter building admits a structure of (Nazarov) semigroup, the product in $Γ$ corresponds to a point-wise product of characteristic functions.