Journal Home Page Cumulative Index List of all Volumes Complete Contentsof this Volume Previous Article Journal of Lie Theory 27 (2017), No. 3, 745--769Copyright Heldermann Verlag 2017 Topological Frobenius Reciprocity for Representations of Nilpotent Groups and Motion Groups Robert J. Archbold Institute of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, Scotland, England r.archbold@abdn.ac.uk Eberhard Kaniuth Institut für Mathematik, Universität Paderborn, 33095 Paderborn, Germany kaniuth@math.uni-paderborn.de [Abstract-pdf] Let $G$ be a locally compact group and $H$ a closed subgroup of $G$, and let $\pi$ and $\tau$ be irreducible representations of $G$ and $H$, respectively. If $G$ is compact then, by the classical Frobenius reciprocity theorem, $\pi$ is contained in the induced representation ${\rm ind}_H^G \tau$ if and only if $\pi|_H$ contains $\tau$. Topological Frobenius properties, which a general locally compact group may or may not satisfy, are obtained by replacing containment by weak containment of representations. We investigate the if' and the only if' assertions for nilpotent locally compact groups and for motion groups. Keywords: Locally compact group, nilpotent group, motion group, SIN-group, unitary representation, induced representation, weak containment, topological Frobenius reciprocity, tensor product. MSC: 22D10, 22D30 [ Fulltext-pdf  (340  KB)] for subscribers only.