Representations of the weak Weyl commutation relation

Let $G$ be a locally compact abelian group with Pontraygin dual $\widehat{G}$. Suppose $P$ is a closed subsemigroup of $G$ containing the identity element $0$. We assume that $P$ has dense interior and $P$ generates $G$. Let $U:=\{U_χ\}_{χ\in \widehat{G}}$ be a strongly continuous group of unitaries and let $V:=\{V_{a}\}_{a \in P}$ be a strongly continuous semigroup of isometries. We call $(U,V)$ a weak Weyl pair if $U_χV_{a}=χ(a)V_{a}U_χ$ for every $χ\in \widehat{G}$ and for every $a \in P$. We work out the representation theory (the factorial and the irreducible representations) of the above commutation relation under the assumption that $\{V_{a}V_{a}^{*}:a \in P\}$ is a commuting family of projections. Not only does this generalise the results of [4] and [5], our proof brings out the Morita equivalence that lies behind the results. For $P=[0,\infty)\times [0,\infty)$, we demonstrate that if we drop the commutativity assumption on the range projections, then the representation theory of the weak Weyl commutation relation becomes very complicated.

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