Our primary goal in this preamble is to highlight the best of Vasil Popov’s mathematical achievements and ideas. V. Popov showed his extraordinary talent for mathematics in his early papers in the (typically Bulgarian) area of approximation in the Hausdorff metric. His results in this area are very well presented in the monograph of his advisor Bl. Sendov, “Hausdorff Approximation”.

We just published a paper showing that the properties of the shift invariant spaces, ⟨f⟩, generated by the translates by ℤⁿ of an f in L²(ℝⁿ) correspond to the properties of the spaces L²(𝕋ⁿ,p), where the weight p equals [f̂,f̂]. This correspondence helps us produce many new properties of the spaces ⟨f⟩. In this paper we extend this method to the case where the role of ℤⁿ is taken over by locally compact abelian groups G, L²(ℝⁿ) is replaced by a separable Hilbert space on which a unitary representation...