This is an announcement for the paper "Fixed points of groups of biholomorphic transformations of operator balls using the midpoint property" by M.I. Ostrovskii, V.S. Shulman, and L. Turowska.

Abstract: A new techniques for proving the existence of fixed points of groups of isometric transformations is developed. It is used to find simpler proofs and real-case versions of previous results of the authors. In particular, we use the obtained fixed point theorem to show that a bounded representation in a separable, real or complex, Hilbert space which has an invariant indefinite quadratic form with finitely many negative squares is orthogonalizable or unitarizable (equivalent to an orthogonal or unitary representation), respectively.

Archive classification: math.MG math.OA

Mathematics Subject Classification: 47H10; 47B50; 22D10; 54E35

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