Synopses & Reviews
This book presents the first systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces. This area has its classical roots in the beginning of the twentieth century and is now a very active research area, having close connections to harmonic analysis, complex analysis, integral geometry, and analysis on symmetric spaces. The main purpose of this book is the study of local aspects of spectral analysis and spectral synthesis on Euclidean spaces, Riemannian symmetric spaces of an arbitrary rank and Heisenberg groups. The subject can be viewed as arising from three classical topics: John's support theorem, Schwartz's fundamental principle, and Delsarte's two-radii theorem. Highly topical, the book contains most of the significant recent results in this area with complete and detailed proofs. In order to make this book accessible to a wide audience, the authors have included an introductory section that develops analysis on symmetric spaces without the use of Lie theory. Challenging open problems are described and explained, and promising new research directions are indicated. Designed for both experts and beginners in the field, the book is rich in methods for a wide variety of problems in many areas of mathematics.
Review
Aus den Rezensionen: "... die wesentlichen Grundlagen der Theorie wurden von Laurent Schwartz etabliert. ... Eigenschaften und Charakterisierungen aller im Mittel periodischen Funktionen sind von Interesse. ... ist in vier Abschnitte unterteilt. ... eine sorgfältig geschriebene, systematische und ... konzise. ... Hilfsresultate sind sicherlich nützlich, und sie sind ein Indikator für die mathematische Stringenz der Herangehensweise. ... Lobend hervorzuheben ist der klare Aufbau des Buchs. Jeder der vier Teile beginnt mit einer kurzen Einführung und endet mit ausführlichen Kommentaren, Anknüpfungspunkten und offenen Fragen." (in: Jahresbericht Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung DMV, 2010, Vol. 112, Issue 2)
Review
From the reviews: "This book is devoted to some recent developments in the harmonic analysis of mean periodic functions on symmetric spaces and Heisenberg group ... . Many topics appear here for the first time in book form. The book under review was written by two leading experts who have made extensive and deep contributions to the subject in the last fifteen years. ... an in-depth, modern, clear exposition of the advanced theory of harmonic analysis on the symmetric domain of rank one and the Heisenberg group." (Jingzhi Tie, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 f) "The book is a ... comprehensive research monograph, based on the author's work. ... Each section contains an introduction, notes and remarks. The book presents a modern and ambitious theme of harmonic analysis. ... will mainly attract experts." (H. G. Feichtinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 163 (1), May, 2011) "The book under review is a masterly treatise whose aim is to present the theory of mean periodic functions in symmetric spaces and on the Heisenberg group ... . This book is for experts in geometric analysis. ... of general interest to researchers in differential geometry, analysis and probability whose work wanders into symmetric spaces. It should certainly be in the library of every university where there is research in mathematics." (Dave Applebaum, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 95 (534), November, 2011)
Review
From the reviews:
"This book is devoted to some recent developments in the harmonic analysis of mean periodic functions on symmetric spaces and Heisenberg group ... . Many topics appear here for the first time in book form. The book under review was written by two leading experts who have made extensive and deep contributions to the subject in the last fifteen years. ... an in-depth, modern, clear exposition of the advanced theory of harmonic analysis on the symmetric domain of rank one and the Heisenberg group." (Jingzhi Tie, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2011 f)
"The book is a ... comprehensive research monograph, based on the author's work. ... Each section contains an introduction, notes and remarks. The book presents a modern and ambitious theme of harmonic analysis. ... will mainly attract experts." (H. G. Feichtinger, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 163 (1), May, 2011)
"The book under review is a masterly treatise whose aim is to present the theory of mean periodic functions in symmetric spaces and on the Heisenberg group ... . This book is for experts in geometric analysis. ... of general interest to researchers in differential geometry, analysis and probability whose work wanders into symmetric spaces. It should certainly be in the library of every university where there is research in mathematics." (Dave Applebaum, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 95 (534), November, 2011)
Synopsis
This highly topical book presents the first systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces. The book contains most of the significant recent results in this area with complete and detailed proofs.
Synopsis
The book presents the first systematic and unified treatment of the theory of mean periodic functions on homogeneous spaces. This area has its classical roots in the beginning of the twentieth century and is now a very active research area, having close connections to harmonic analysis, complex analysis, integral geometry, and analysis on symmetric spaces. The main purpose of this book is the study of local aspects of spectral analysis and spectral synthesis on Euclidean spaces, Riemannian symmetric spaces of an arbitrary rank and Heisenberg groups. The subject can be viewed as arising from three classical topics: John's support theorem, Schwartz's fundamental principle, and Delsarte's two-radii theorem. Very up-to-date, the book contains most of the significant recent results in this area with complete and detailed proofs. In order to make this book accessible to a wide audience, the authors provide an introductory part developing analysis on symmetric spaces without use of Lie theory. Challenging open problems are described and explained, and promising new research directions are indicated. Designed for both experts and beginners in the field, the book is rich in methods for a wide variety of problems in many areas of mathematics.
Table of Contents
Part 1; Symmetric Spaces. Harmonic Analysis on Spheres.- 1. General Considerations.- 2. Analogues of the Beltrami-Klein Model for Rank One Symmetric Spaces of Non-Compact Type.- 3. Realizations of Rank One Symmetric Spaces of Compact Type.- 4. Realizations of the Irreducible Components of the Quasi-Regular Representation of Groups Transitive on Spheres. Invariant Subspaces.- 5. Non-Euclidean Analogues of Plane Waves.- Comments, Further Results and Open Problems.- Part 2; Transformations with Generalized Transmutation Property Associated with Eigenfunctions Expansions.- 6. Preliminaries.- 7. Some Special Functions.- 8. Exponential Expansions.- 9. Multidimensional Euclidean Case.- 10. The Case of Symmetric Spaces X = G/K of Noncompact Type.- 11. The Case of Compact Symmetric Spaces.- 12. The Case of Phase Space.- Comments, Further Results and Open Problems.- Part 3; Mean periodicity.- 13. Mean Periodic Functions on Subsets of the Real Line.- 14. Mean Periodic Functions on Multidimensional Domains.- 15. Mean Periodic Functions on G/K.- 16. Mean Periodic Functions on Compact Symmetric Spaces of Rank One.- 17. Mean Periodicity on Phase Space and the Heisenberg Group.- Comments, Further Results and Open Problems.- Part 4. Local Aspects of Spectral Analysis and the Exponential Representation Problem.- 18. A New Look at the Schwartz Theory.- 19. Recent Developments in the Spectral Analysis Problem for Higher Dimensions.- 20. Spectral Analysis on Domains of Noncompact Symmetric Spaces of an Arbitrary Rank.- 21. Spherical Spectral Analysis on Subsets of Compact Symmetric Spaces.- Comments, Further Results and Open Problems.- Bibliography.