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For a scalar function on a group, left translation by $a$ is $(L_{a}f)(x)=f(a^{-1}x)$. With the positive-representation convention for Fourier analysis on a finite group, $\widehat{L_{a}f}(\rho )=\rho (a)\hat{f}(\rho )$.

A mean-zero function has expectation zero with respect to the specified probability measure. On a finite set with uniform measure this means ${\sum }_{x}f(x)=0$. A balanced subset indicator is an example. In Fourier analysis on a finite group, this is equivalent to vanishing of the component at the trivial representation.

Non-abelian additive combinatorics studies product sets and configuration counts in noncommutative groups. Fourier analysis on a finite group and quasirandom groups connect small-dimensional group representations with multiplicative mixing.

For scalar functions on a finite group, normalized convolution on a finite group is $(f\ast g)(x)=|G{|}^{-1}{\sum }_{y}f(y)g(y^{-1}x)$. It is associative and need not commute. Its identity is $|G|1_{\{e\}}$, rather than the unscaled indicator function of the identity element. The Fourier analysis on a finite group convention $\hat{f}(\rho )=\mathbb{E}f(x)\rho (x)$ turns it into matrix multiplication in the same order.

Use the following normalization for Fourier analysis on a finite group. Choose one unitary irreducible representation $\rho :G\to U(d_{\rho })$ from each equivalence class, including the trivial representation. For a scalar function $f:G\to \mathbb{C}$, putThis convention uses $\rho (x)$, rather than $\rho (x{)}^{\ast }$, in the Fourier transform on a finite group; it makes the normalized convolution on a finite group preserve multiplication order.

The needed representation theory consists of Maschke's theorem and unitarization of a finite-group representation, together with the Schur orthogonality relations:The regular representation contains $d_{\rho }$ copies of each $\rho$, so ${\sum }_{\rho }{d}_{\rho }^2=|G|$. Thus the scaled matrix coefficients $\sqrt{d_{\rho }}\rho (x{)}_{ij}$, and also their complex conjugates, form an orthonormal basis of all scalar functions on $G$. These facts imply Fourier inversion on a finite group and the Parseval identity on a finite group in the formsand henceIn particular, the transform is an isomorphism onto the direct sum of the matrix algebras $M_{d_{\rho }}(\mathbb{C})$, with the displayed weighted Hilbert-Schmidt inner product.

Define the normalized convolution on a finite group bySubstituting $x=yz$ and using the group representation identity yields the convolution theorem on a finite groupUnlike normalized convolution on a finite group on an abelian group, this product need not commute. If $\tilde{f}(x)=\overline{f(x^{-1})}$, then $\hat{\tilde{f}}(\rho )=\hat{f}(\rho {)}^{\ast }$. For left translation of a group function and right translation of a group function $L_{a}f(x)=f(a^{-1}x)$ and $R_{a}f(x)=f(xa)$,For an abelian group, every irreducible representation is one-dimensional; this reduces to Fourier analysis on a finite abelian group with characters relabelled by their inverses. These formulas establish the basic scalar theory, with all normalizations and multiplication orders fixed.

Now suppose every nontrivial irreducible representation has $d_{\rho }\ge m$. If $f$ is a mean-zero function, its component at the trivial representation is zero. The Parseval identity on a finite group gives, for each other $\rho$,Using the convolution theorem on a finite group, the Hilbert-Schmidt norm inequality $\Vert AB{\Vert }_{\mathrm{HS}}\le \Vert A{\Vert }_{\mathrm{op}}\Vert B{\Vert }_{\mathrm{HS}}$, and the Parseval identity on a finite group once more gives the product mixing in a quasirandom group estimateWrite $a,b,c$ for the subset density values of $A,B,C$, respectively, and let $f=1_A-a$, $g=1_B-b$ be balanced subset indicators. Since both are mean-zero functions, $1_A\ast 1_B=ab+f\ast g$. Their squared norms are $a(1-a)$ and $b(1-b)$. Also $\mathbb{E}(f\ast g)=0$, so the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality yieldsIf $abc>1/m$, the final bound is strictly smaller than $abc$. Thus the normalized number of pairs $(x,y)\in A\times B$ with $xy\in C$ is positive. Equivalently,This is the desired conclusion for a quasirandom group; the strict inequality ensures positivity rather than merely a nonnegative lower bound.

For an $m$-quasirandom group, uniform expectations, and the normalized convolution on a finite group, a scalar mean-zero function $f$ satisfiesThe Fourier analysis on a finite group proof bounds each nontrivial matrix component of $f$ in operator norm using its weighted Hilbert-Schmidt norm. For subsets of subset density values $a,b,c$, the error in their normalized product count is at most $\sqrt{a(1-a)b(1-b)c(1-c)/m}$. In particular $abc>1/m$ guarantees a solution of $xy=z$ in the three subsets.

For a scalar function on a group, use $(R_{a}f)(x)=f(xa)$ as the right-translation convention. For Fourier analysis on a finite group this gives $\widehat{R_{a}f}(\rho )=\hat{f}(\rho )\rho (a{)}^{\ast }$. Specifying whether $a$ or $a^{-1}$ appears in the definition avoids sign and multiplication-order ambiguity.