Herz–Schur multiplier

In the mathematical field of representation theory, a Herz–Schur multiplier (named after Carl S. Herz and Issai Schur) is a special kind of mapping from a group to the field of complex numbers.

Definition

Let Ψ be a mapping of a group G to the complex numbers. It is a Herz–Schur multiplier if the induced map Ψ: N(G) → N(G) is a completely positive map, where N(G) is the closure of the span M of the image of λ in B(ℓ ²(G)) with respect to the weak topology, λ is the left regular representation of G and Ψ is on M defined as

$\Psi :~\sum \limits _{g\in G}\mu _{g}\lambda _{g}\mapsto \sum \limits _{g\in G}\psi (g)\mu _{g}\lambda _{g}.$

See also

• Figà-Talamanca–Herz algebra
• Fourier algebra

References

• Pisier, Gilles (1995), "Multipliers and lacunary sets in non-amenable groups", American Journal of Mathematics, 117 (2), The Johns Hopkins University Press: 337–376, arXiv:math/9212207, doi:10.2307/2374918, ISSN 0002-9327, JSTOR 2374918, MR 1323679, S2CID 2958712
• Figà-Talamanca, Alessandro; Picardello, Massimo A. (1983), Harmonic analysis on free groups, Lecture Notes in Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 87, New York: Marcel Dekker Inc., ISBN 978-0-8247-7042-6, MR 0710827
• Carl S. Herz. Une généralisation de la notion de transformée de Fourier-Stieltjes. Annales de l'Institut Fourier, tome 24, no 3 (1974), p. 145-157.