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Jun 15, 2022 at 5:52 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 4.0
Incorrect statement on lack of local compactness of the dual group of a locally compact Hausdorff Abelian topological group removed, commenter acknowledged, added reference details
Jun 15, 2022 at 5:46 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 4.0
Incorrect statement on lack of local compactness of the dual group of a locally compact Hausdorff Abelian topological group removed, commenter acknowledged
Jun 15, 2022 at 5:33 comment added Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro Honestly, I don't remember why I wrote that, sorry - it could be that I mistook the space of continuous real-valued functions on $G$ (which is indeed not locally compact w.r.t. the compact-open topology unless $G$ is finite) for the dual group $\widehat{G}$ of $G$ without thinking it through. In any case, you're right, according also to e.g. Theorem 23.15, pp. 361-362 of E. Hewitt and K. A. Ross, Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Volume I (2nd. edition, Springer-Verlag, 1979). I'll correct my answer above. Thanks for pointing it out!
Jun 14, 2022 at 0:48 comment added KConrad Sorry for posting a comment on this 8 years later, but you say about a locally compact abelian group $G$ that its group of characters $\widehat{G}$ is an abelian topological group (using the compact-open topology) that is "not necessarily locally compact". What did you have in mind? The dual group is locally compact. See, for instance, kconrad.math.uconn.edu/blurbs/gradnumthy/loccptascoli.pdf.
Jan 18, 2014 at 17:38 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
small clarification
Jan 18, 2014 at 17:31 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
small clarifications
Jan 18, 2014 at 17:18 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
small corrections and clarifications
Jan 18, 2014 at 16:46 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
small correction
Jan 18, 2014 at 16:37 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
short clarifications at some points
Jan 18, 2014 at 16:27 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
small cleanups
Jan 18, 2014 at 15:35 history edited Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0
Added couple of remarks
Jan 18, 2014 at 15:23 history answered Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro CC BY-SA 3.0