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Let $H$ be an open subgroup of a locally compact Hausdorff abelian group $G$. Assume that $G/H$ is a finitely generated abelian group. Let $\chi: H \rightarrow \mathbb{C}^{\ast}$ be a continuous ...

When I first met the concept of "characters" of topological groups in Pontryagin's book "Topological groups", it was defined as follows: Let $G$ be a topological group. A ...