Cocyle Representations of Solvable Lie Groups.
Consider a simple non-compact algebraic group, over any locally compact non-discrete field, which has Kazhdan’s property . For any such group, , we present a Kazhdan set of two elements, and compute its best Kazhdan constant. Then, settling a question raised by Serre and by de la Harpe and Valette, explicit Kazhdan constants for every lattice in are obtained, for a “geometric” generating set of the form , where is a ball of radius , and the dependence of on is described explicitly....
Let G be a compactly generated, locally compact group with polynomial growth and let ω be a weight on G. We look for general conditions on the weight which allow us to develop a functional calculus on a total part of L1(G,ω). This functional calculus is then used to study harmonic analysis properties of L1(G,ω), such as the Wiener property and Domar's theorem.
The construction of generalized continuous wavelet transforms on locally compact abelian groups A from quasi-regular representations of a semidirect product group G = A ⋊ H acting on L²(A) requires the existence of a square-integrable function whose Plancherel transform satisfies a Calderón-type resolution of the identity. The question then arises under what conditions such square-integrable functions exist. The existing literature on this subject leaves a gap between sufficient and necessary criteria....