Parole chiave

• global symbol calculus
• spin groups
• group Fourier transform
• hypoelliptic differential operators

Abstract In this talk we present a method to construct a global symbol calculus of pseudo-differential operators on spin groups in the sense of Ruzhansky-Turunen-Wirth, focussing on the special case $\text{Spin}(4)$. Using representations of $\text{Spin}(4)$ we construct a group Fourier transform and establish the calculus of left-invariant differential operators and of difference operators on the group $\text{Spin}(4)$. Afterwards we apply this calculus to give criteria for the subellipticity and the global hypoellipticity of pseudo-differential operators in terms of their matrix-valued full symbols. Several examples of first and second order globally hypoelliptic differential operators are given, including some that are locally neither invertible nor hypoelliptic.