Sphericity and multiplication of double cosets for infinite-dimensional classical groups

Abstract

We construct spherical subgroups in infinite-dimensional classical groups $G$ (usually they are not symmetric and their finite-dimensional analogs are not spherical). We present a structure of a semigroup on double cosets $L\setminus G/L$ for various subgroups $L$ in $G$, moreover these semigroups act in spaces of $L$-fixed vectors in unitary representations of $G$. We also obtain semigroup envelops of groups $G$ generalizing constructions of operator colligations.