Quaternion-valued positive definite functions on locally compact Abelian groups and nuclear spaces

Cupples I Room 113

In this talk we introduce and study quaternion-valued positive definite functions on locally compact Abelian groups, real countably Hilbertian nuclear spaces and on the space of countably infinite tuples of real numbers endowed with the Tychonoff topology. In particular, we prove a quaternionic version of the Bochner–Minlos theorem. We will see that in all these various settings the integral representation is with respect to a quaternion-valued measure which has certain symmetry properties. This talk is based on joint work with D. Alpay, F. Colombo and I. Sabadini.