The aim of this paper is to give a q-analogue for complete monotonicity. We apply a classical characterization of Hausdorff moment sequences in terms of positive definiteness and complete monotonicity, adapted to the q-situation. The method due to Maserick and Szafraniec that does not need moments turns out to be useful. A definition of a q-moment sequence appears as a by-product.
A convolution operator, bounded on , is bounded on , with the same operator norm, if and are conjugate exponents. It is well known that this fact is false if we replace with a general non-commutative locally compact group . In this paper we give a simple construction of a convolution operator on a suitable compact group , wich is bounded on for every and is unbounded on if .
We prove a restriction theorem for the class-1 representations of the Heisenberg motion group. This is done using an improvement of the restriction theorem for the special Hermite projection operators proved in [13]. We also prove a restriction theorem for the Heisenberg group.
We compute the heat kernel on the classical and nonisotropic Heisenberg groups, and on the free step two nilpotent groups , by an elementary method, in particular without using Laguerre calculus.
Let G be a real Lie group and H a lattice or, more generally, a closed subgroup of finite covolume in G. We show that the unitary representation of G on L²(G/H) has a spectral gap, that is, the restriction of to the orthogonal complement of the constants in L²(G/H) does not have almost invariant vectors. This answers a question of G. Margulis. We give an application to the spectral geometry of locally symmetric Riemannian spaces of infinite volume.