Pseudo-differential operators associated to general type I locally compact groups

Abstract

In a recent paper by M. Mantoiu and M. Ruzhansky, a global pseudo-differential calculus has been developed for unimodular groups of type I. In the present article we generalize the main results to arbitrary locally compact groups of type I. Our methods involve the use of Plancherel's theorem for non-unimodular groups. We also make connections with a $C^*$-algebraic formalism, involving dynamical systems, and give explicit constructions for the group of affine transformations of the real line.