To a Lie groupoid over a compact base $M$ , the associated group of bisection is an (infinite-dimensional) Lie group. Moreover, under certain circumstances one can reconstruct the Lie groupoid from its Lie group of bisections. In the present article we consider functorial aspects of these construction principles. The first observation is that this procedure is functorial (for morphisms fixing $M$ ). Moreover, it gives rise to an adjunction between the category of Lie groupoids over $M$ and the category of Lie groups acting on $M$ . In the last section we then show how to promote this adjunction to almost an equivalence of categories.

For a variety with a Whitney stratification by affine spaces, we study categories of motivic sheaves which are constant mixed Tate along the strata. We are particularly interested in those cases where the category of mixed Tate motives over a point is equivalent to the category of finite-dimensional bigraded vector spaces. Examples of such situations include rational motives on varieties over finite fields and modules over the spectrum representing the semisimplification of de Rham cohomology for varieties over the complex numbers. We show that our categories of stratified mixed Tate motives have a natural weight structure. Under an additional assumption of pointwise purity for objects of the heart, tilting gives an equivalence between stratified mixed Tate sheaves and the bounded homotopy category of the heart of the weight structure. Specializing to the case of flag varieties, we find natural geometric interpretations of graded category ${\mathcal{O}}$ and Koszul duality.

We prove that all convolution products of pairs of continuous orbital measures in rank one, compact symmetric spaces are absolutely continuous and determine which convolution products are in $L^{2}$ (meaning that their density function is in  $L^{2}$ ). We characterise the pairs whose convolution product is either absolutely continuous or in $L^{2}$ in terms of the dimensions of the corresponding double cosets. In particular, we prove that if $G/K$ is not $\text{SU}(2)/\text{SO}(2)$ , then the convolution of any two regular orbital measures is in $L^{2}$ , while in $\text{SU}(2)/\text{SO}(2)$ there are no pairs of orbital measures whose convolution product is in  $L^{2}$ .

This paper is about the reduced group $C^{\ast }$-algebras of real reductive groups, and about Hilbert $C^{\ast }$-modules over these $C^{\ast }$-algebras. We shall do three things. First, we shall apply theorems from the tempered representation theory of reductive groups to determine the structure of the reduced $C^{\ast }$-algebra (the result has been known for some time, but it is difficult to assemble a full treatment from the existing literature). Second, we shall use the structure of the reduced $C^{\ast }$-algebra to determine the structure of the Hilbert $C^{\ast }$-bimodule that represents the functor of parabolic induction. Third, we shall prove that the parabolic induction bimodule admits a secondary inner product, using which we can define a functor of parabolic restriction in tempered representation theory. We shall prove in a sequel to this paper that parabolic restriction is adjoint, on both the left and the right, to parabolic induction in the context of tempered unitary Hilbert space representations.

It is proved that any surjective morphism $f:\mathbb{Z}^{{\it\kappa}}\rightarrow K$ onto a locally compact group $K$ is open for every cardinal ${\it\kappa}$ . This answers a question posed by Hofmann and the second author.

We relate Catalan numbers and Catalan determinants to random matrix integrals and to moments of spin representations of odd orthogonal groups.

We raise a question of whether the Riesz transform on $\mathbb{T}^{n}$ or $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ is characterized by the ‘maximal semigroup symmetry’ that the transform satisfies. We prove that this is the case if and only if the dimension is one, two or a multiple of four. This generalizes a theorem of Edwards and Gaudry for the Hilbert transform on $\mathbb{T}$ and $\mathbb{Z}$ in the one-dimensional case, and extends a theorem of Stein for the Riesz transform on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. Unlike the $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ case, we show that there exist infinitely many linearly independent multiplier operators that enjoy the same maximal semigroup symmetry as the Riesz transforms on $\mathbb{T}^{n}$ and $\mathbb{Z}^{n}$ if the dimension $n$ is greater than or equal to three and is not a multiple of four.

Let $G$ be a compact group. The aim of this note is to show that the only continuous *-homomorphism from $L^{1}(G)$ to $\ell ^{\infty }\text{-}\bigoplus _{[{\it\pi}]\in {\hat{G}}}{\mathcal{B}}_{2}({\mathcal{H}}_{{\it\pi}})$ that transforms a convolution product into a pointwise product is, essentially, a Fourier transform. A similar result is also deduced for maps from $L^{2}(G)$ to $\ell ^{2}\text{-}\bigoplus _{[{\it\pi}]\in {\hat{G}}}{\mathcal{B}}_{2}({\mathcal{H}}_{{\it\pi}})$.

We prove that if $G_{P}$ is a finitely constrained group of binary rooted tree automorphisms (a group binary tree subshift of finite type) defined by an essential pattern group $P$ of pattern size $d$, $d\geq 2$, and if $G_{P}$ has maximal Hausdorff dimension (equal to $1-1/2^{d-1}$), then $G_{P}$ is not topologically finitely generated. We describe precisely all essential pattern groups $P$ that yield finitely constrained groups with maximal Hausdorff dimension. For a given size $d$, $d\geq 2$, there are exactly $2^{d-1}$ such pattern groups and they are all maximal in the group of automorphisms of the finite rooted regular tree of depth $d$.

We consider the rigid monoidal category of character sheaves on a smooth commutative group scheme $G$ over a finite field $k$ , and expand the scope of the function-sheaf dictionary from connected commutative algebraic groups to this setting. We find the group of isomorphism classes of character sheaves on $G$ , and show that it is an extension of the group of characters of $G(k)$ by a cohomology group determined by the component group scheme of $G$ . We also classify all morphisms in the category character sheaves on $G$ . As an application, we study character sheaves on Greenberg transforms of locally finite type Néron models of algebraic tori over local fields. This provides a geometrization of quasicharacters of $p$ -adic tori.

Let $\text{H}$ be a subgroup of some locally compact group $\text{G}$. Assume that $\text{H}$ is approximable by discrete subgroups and that $\text{G}$ admits neighborhood bases which are almost invariant under conjugation by finite subsets of $\text{H}$. Let $m:\text{G}\rightarrow \mathbb{C}$ be a bounded continuous symbol giving rise to an $L_{p}$-bounded Fourier multiplier (not necessarily completely bounded) on the group von Neumann algebra of $\text{G}$ for some $1\leqslant p\leqslant \infty$. Then, $m_{\mid _{\text{H}}}$ yields an $L_{p}$-bounded Fourier multiplier on the group von Neumann algebra of $\text{H}$ provided that the modular function ${\rm\Delta}_{\text{G}}$ is equal to 1 over $\text{H}$. This is a noncommutative form of de Leeuw’s restriction theorem for a large class of pairs $(\text{G},\text{H})$. Our assumptions on $\text{H}$ are quite natural, and they recover the classical result. The main difference with de Leeuw’s original proof is that we replace dilations of Gaussians by other approximations of the identity for which certain new estimates on almost-multiplicative maps are crucial. Compactification via lattice approximation and periodization theorems are also investigated.

We prove certain depth bounds for Arthur’s endoscopic transfer of representations from classical groups to the corresponding general linear groups over local fields of characteristic 0, with some restrictions on the residue characteristic. We then use these results and the method of Deligne and Kazhdan of studying representation theory over close local fields to obtain, under some restrictions on the characteristic, the local Langlands correspondence for split classical groups over local function fields from the corresponding result of Arthur in characteristic 0.

Let $\mathbf{G}$ be the connected reductive group of type $E_{7,3}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ and $\mathfrak{T}$ be the corresponding symmetric domain in $\mathbb{C}^{27}$. Let ${\rm\Gamma}=\mathbf{G}(\mathbb{Z})$ be the arithmetic subgroup defined by Baily. In this paper, for any positive integer $k\geqslant 10$, we will construct a (non-zero) holomorphic cusp form on $\mathfrak{T}$ of weight $2k$ with respect to ${\rm\Gamma}$ from a Hecke cusp form in $S_{2k-8}(\text{SL}_{2}(\mathbb{Z}))$. We follow Ikeda’s idea of using Siegel’s Eisenstein series, their Fourier–Jacobi expansions, and the compatible family of Eisenstein series.

Let $G$ be an algebraic real reductive group and $Z$ a real spherical $G$-variety, that is, it admits an open orbit for a minimal parabolic subgroup $P$. We prove a local structure theorem for $Z$. In the simplest case where $Z$ is homogeneous, the theorem provides an isomorphism of the open $P$-orbit with a bundle $Q\times _{L}S$. Here $Q$ is a parabolic subgroup with Levi decomposition $L\ltimes U$, and $S$ is a homogeneous space for a quotient $D=L/L_{n}$ of $L$, where $L_{n}\subseteq L$ is normal, such that $D$ is compact modulo center.

A paper of Almeida and Trotter [‘The pseudoidentity problem and reducibility for completely regular semigroups’, Bull. Aust. Math. Soc.63 (2001), 407–433] makes essential use of free profinite semigroupoids over profinite graphs with infinitely many vertices. It has since been shown that such structures must be handled with great care. In this note, it is verified that the required properties hold for the profinite graphs considered by Almeida and Trotter, thereby filling the gaps in the proof.

We prove that if ${\it\rho}$ is an irreducible positive definite function in the Fourier–Stieltjes algebra $B(G)$ of a locally compact group $G$ with $\Vert {\it\rho}\Vert _{B(G)}=1$, then the iterated powers $({\it\rho}^{n})$ as a sequence of unital completely positive maps on the group $C^{\ast }$-algebra converge to zero in the strong operator topology.

Let $R$ be a large field of characteristic $p$ . We classify the supersingular simple modules of the pro- $p$ -Iwahori Hecke $R$ -algebra ${\mathcal{H}}$ of a general reductive $p$ -adic group $G$ . We show that the functor of pro- $p$ -Iwahori invariants behaves well when restricted to the representations compactly induced from an irreducible smooth $R$ -representation $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C}$ of a special parahoric subgroup $K$ of $G$ . We give an almost-isomorphism between the center of ${\mathcal{H}}$ and the center of the spherical Hecke algebra ${\mathcal{H}}(G,K,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C})$ , and a Satake-type isomorphism for ${\mathcal{H}}(G,K,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70C})$ . This generalizes results obtained by Ollivier for $G$ split and $K$ hyperspecial to $G$ general and $K$ special.

Let $F$ be a non-Archimedean local field, and let $G^{\sharp }$ be the group of $F$ -rational points of an inner form of $\text{SL}_{n}$ . We study Hecke algebras for all Bernstein components of $G^{\sharp }$ , via restriction from an inner form $G$ of $\text{GL}_{n}(F)$ .

For any packet of L-indistinguishable Bernstein components, we exhibit an explicit algebra whose module category is equivalent to the associated category of complex smooth $G^{\sharp }$ -representations. This algebra comes from an idempotent in the full Hecke algebra of $G^{\sharp }$ , and the idempotent is derived from a type for $G$ . We show that the Hecke algebras for Bernstein components of $G^{\sharp }$ are similar to affine Hecke algebras of type $A$ , yet in many cases are not Morita equivalent to any crossed product of an affine Hecke algebra with a finite group.

Hughes has defined a class of groups that we call finite similarity structure (FSS) groups. Each FSS group acts on a compact ultrametric space by local similarities. The best-known example is Thompson’s group V. Guided by previous work on Thompson’s group, we show that many FSS groups are of type F∞. This generalizes work of Ken Brown from the 1980s.