On concentration of convolutions of double cosets at infinite-dimensional limit

Abstract

For infinite-dimensional groups $G\supset K$ the double cosets $K\setminus G/K$ quite often admit a structure of a semigroup; these semigroups act in $K$-fixed vectors of unitary representations of $G$. We show that such semigroups can be obtained as limits of double cosets hypergroups (or Iwahori--Hecke type algebras) on finite-dimensional (or finite) groups.