The density of the image of the exponential function and spacious locally compact groups.
We determine the correspondence of infinitesimal characters of representations which occur in Howe's Duality Theorem. In the appendix we identify the lowest K-types, in the sense of Vogan, of the unitary highest weight representations of real reductive dual pairs with at least one member compact.
We find the minimal real number k such that the kth power of the Fourier transform of any continuous, orbital measure on a classical, compact Lie group belongs to l2. This results from an investigation of the pointwise behaviour of characters on these groups. An application is given to the study of Lp-improving measures.
Pointwise upper bounds for characters of compact, connected, simple Lie groups are obtained which enable one to prove that if μ is any central, continuous measure and n exceeds half the dimension of the Lie group, then . When μ is a continuous, orbital measure then is seen to belong to . Lower bounds on the p-norms of characters are also obtained, and are used to show that, as in the abelian case, m-fold products of Sidon sets are not p-Sidon if p < 2m/(m+1).