Convolution semigroups of states on a quantum group form the natural noncommutative analogue of convolution semigroups of probability measures on a locally compact group. Here we initiate a theory of weakly continuous convolution semigroups of functionals on a C∗-bialgebra, the noncommutative counterpart of a locally compact semigroup. On locally compact quantum groups we obtain a bijective cor...

For a smooth harmonic map flow u : M× [0, T ) → N with blow-up as t ↑ T , it has been asked ([6], [5], [7]) whether the weak limit u(T ) : M→ N is continuous. Recently, in [12], we showed that in general it need not be. Meanwhile, the energy function E(u(·)) : [0, T ) → R, being weakly positive, smooth and weakly decreasing, has a continuous extension to [0, T ]. Here we show that if this exten...

Convolution semigroups of states on a quantum group form the natural noncommutative analogue of convolution semigroups of probability measures on a locally compact group. Here we initiate a theory of weakly continuous convolution semigroups of functionals on a C∗bialgebra, the noncommutative counterpart of locally compact semigroup. On locally compact quantum groups we obtain a bijective corres...