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Is there an explicit construction of the Bohr Compactification of the Integers?

Is it possible to explicitly describe the Bohr compactification of $\mathbb Z$? This is equivalent to describing all the group homomorphisms $\mathbb R/\mathbb Z \to \mathbb R/\mathbb Z$ including ...
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When is A ⊗ ℚ self-Pontrjagin dual for a compact-Hausdorff topological ring A?

The topological ring of finite adeles $\mathbb A \cong \hat{\mathbb Z} \otimes \mathbb Q$ is self-Pontrjagin dual with self-dual Schwartz–Bruhat functional $\mathbb 1_{\hat{\mathbb Z}}$. This ...
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