NONCOMMUTATIVE DE LEEUW THEOREMS

Let H be a subgroup of some locally compact group G. Assume that H is approximable by discrete subgroups and that G admits neighborhood bases which are almost invariant under conjugation by finite subsets of H. Let m : G -> C be a bounded continuous symbol giving rise to an L-p-bounded Fourier multiplier (not necessarily completely bounded) on the group von Neumann algebra of G for some 1 <= p <= infinity). Then, m(vertical bar H) yields an L-p-bounded Fourier multiplier on the group von Neumann algebra of H provided that the modular function Delta(G) is equal to 1 over H. This is a noncommutative form of de Leeuw's restriction theorem for a large class of pairs (G, H). Our assumptions on H are quite natural, and they recover the classical result. The main difference with de Leeuw's original proof is that we replace dilations of Gaussians by other approximations of the identity for which certain new estimates on almost-multiplicative maps are crucial. Compactification via lattice approximation and periodization theorems are also investigated.