Harmonic analysis with respect to heat kernel measure

Abstract

I review certain results in harmonic analysis for systems whose configuration space is a compact Lie group. The results described involve a heat kernel measure, which plays the same role as a Gaussian measure on Euclidean space. The main constructions are group analogs of the Hermite expansion, the Segal-Bargmann transform, and the Taylor expansion. The results are related to geometric quantization, to stochastic analysis, and to the quantization of 1+1-dimensional Yang-Mills theory.