With view to applications in stochastic analysis and geometry, we introduce a new correspondence for positive definite kernels (p.d.) $K$ and their associated reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. With this we establish two kinds of factorizations: (i)
Probabilistic: Starting with a positive definite kernel $K$ we analyze associated Gaussian processes $V$. Properties of the Gaussian processes will be derived from certain factorizations of $K$, arising as a covariance kernel of $V$. (ii) Geometric analysis: We discuss families of measure spaces arising as boundaries for $K$. Our results entail an analysis of a partial order on families of p.d. kernels, a duality for operators and frames, optimization, Karhunen--Lo`eve expansions, and factorizations. Applications include a new boundary analysis for the Drury-Arveson kernel, and for certain fractals arising as iterated function systems; and an identification of optimal feature spaces in machine learning models.
We generalize Feichtinger and Kaiblingers theorem on linear deformations of uniform Gabor frames to the setting of a locally compact abelian group $G$. More precisely, we show that Gabor frames over lattices in the time-frequency plane of $G$ with wi
ndows in the Feichtinger algebra are stable under small deformations of the lattice by an automorphism of ${G}times widehat{G}$. The topology we use on the automorphisms is the Braconnier topology. We characterize the groups in which the Balian-Low theorem for the Feichtinger algebra holds as exactly the groups with noncompact identity component. This generalizes a theorem of Kaniuth and Kutyniok on the zeros of the Zak transform on locally compact abelian groups. We apply our results to a class of number-theoretic groups, including the adele group associated to a global field.
We give some new characterizations of exactness for locally compact second countable groups. In particular, we prove that a locally compact second countable group is exact if and only if it admits a topologically amenable action on a compact Hausdorf
f space. This answers an open question by Anantharaman-Delaroche.
We give explicit transforms for Hilbert spaces associated with positive definite functions on $mathbb{R}$, and positive definite tempered distributions, incl., generalizations to non-abelian locally compact groups. Applications to the theory of exten
sions of p.d. functions/distributions are included. We obtain explicit representation formulas for positive definite tempered distributions in the sense of L. Schwartz, and we give applications to Dirac combs and to diffraction. As further applications, we give parallels between Bochners theorem (for continuous p.d. functions) on the one hand, and the generalization to Bochner/Schwartz representations for positive definite tempered distributions on the other; in the latter case, via tempered positive measures. Via our transforms, we make precise the respective reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (RKHSs), that of N. Aronszajn and that of L. Schwartz. Further applications are given to stationary-increment Gaussian processes.
This paper concerns the study of regular Fourier hypergroups through multipliers of their associated Fourier algebras. We establish hypergroup analogues of well-known characterizations of group amenability, introduce a notion of weak amenability for
hypergroups, and show that every discrete commutative hypergroup is weakly amenable with constant 1. Using similar techniques, we provide a sufficient condition for amenability of hypergroup Fourier algebras, which, as an immediate application, answers one direction of a conjecture of Azimifard--Samei--Spronk [J. Funct. Anal. 256(5) 1544-1564, 2009] on the amenability of $ZL^1(G)$ for compact groups $G$. In the final section we consider Fourier algebras of hypergroups arising from compact quantum groups $mathbb{G}$, and in particular, establish a completely isometric isomorphism with the center of the quantum group algebra for compact $mathbb{G}$ of Kac type.