Proper Actions and Representation Theory

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Main Author: Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
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Published: 2025
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author Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
author_facet Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
contents This exposition presents recent developments on proper actions, highlighting their connections to representation theory. It begins with geometric aspects, including criteria for the properness of homogeneous spaces in the setting of reductive groups. We then explore the interplay between the properness of group actions and the discrete decomposability of unitary representations realized on function spaces. Furthermore, two contrasting new approaches to quantifying proper actions are examined: one based on the notion of sharpness, which measures how strongly a given action satisfies properness; and another based on dynamical volume estimates, which measure deviations from properness. The latter quantitative estimates have proven especially fruitful in establishing temperedness criterion for regular unitary representations on $G$-spaces. Throughout, key concepts are illustrated with concrete geometric and representation-theoretic examples.
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spellingShingle Proper Actions and Representation Theory
Kobayashi, Toshiyuki
Representation Theory
Differential Geometry
22F30, 22E46, 53C35, 11F72
This exposition presents recent developments on proper actions, highlighting their connections to representation theory. It begins with geometric aspects, including criteria for the properness of homogeneous spaces in the setting of reductive groups. We then explore the interplay between the properness of group actions and the discrete decomposability of unitary representations realized on function spaces. Furthermore, two contrasting new approaches to quantifying proper actions are examined: one based on the notion of sharpness, which measures how strongly a given action satisfies properness; and another based on dynamical volume estimates, which measure deviations from properness. The latter quantitative estimates have proven especially fruitful in establishing temperedness criterion for regular unitary representations on $G$-spaces. Throughout, key concepts are illustrated with concrete geometric and representation-theoretic examples.
title Proper Actions and Representation Theory
topic Representation Theory
Differential Geometry
22F30, 22E46, 53C35, 11F72
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15616