A Qualitative Uncertainty Principle for Certain Locally Compact Groups.
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.
We establish the spectral gap property for dense subgroups of SU, generated by finitely many elements with algebraic entries; this result was announced...