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Pontriagin reflexivity of the character group
For an Abelian topological group $G$ by $G^{\wedge}$ we denote the Pontryagin dual of $G$, i.e. the group of continuous homomorphisms $G\to\mathbb T:=\{z\in\mathbb C:|z|=1\}$. The group $G^{\wedge}$ ...
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An [IN$]_B$ group with a non-normal compact $B$-invariant subgroup
Let $G$ be a locally compact group with the group of topological group automorphisms $Aut(G)$ furnished with the compact-open topology. Let $B$ be a subgroup of $Aut(G)$. We call $G$ an [IN$]_B$ if ...
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Is an Abelian topological group compact if it is complete and Bohr-compact?
A topological group $G$ will be called Bohr-compact if its Bohr topology (i.e., the largest precompact group topology) is compact and Hausdorff.
A topological group $G$ is Bohr-compact if it admits ...
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Best constant for maximal function for locally compact groups
Maximal functions for locally compact groups have been studied. In particular papers of K. Phillips and Phillips-Taibleson (here and here) contain nice results in this direction. It might be too much ...
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Weil's book L'intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications
The book L'intégration dans les groupes topologiques et ses applications published by André Weil in 1940 is regarded as one of the classical references for harmonic analysis on topological groups.
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Primitive ideal space and unitary dual of a [SIN] group - when are they Hausdorff?
Recall that a locally compact group $G$ is said to be
an $[FC]^-$ group, if each conjugacy class in $G$ has a compact closure;
an $[SIN]$ group, if each neighborhood of the identity includes a ...
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Weil's Haar measure construction from below
Weil's construction of a Haar measure on a locally compact group rests on approximating a function from above by sums of translates of another function.
I would need to know something similar for an ...
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A possible mistake in Walter Rudin, "Fourier analysis on groups"
I have the following lemma 4.2.4 on page 80 in the book (we have locally compact abelian topological groups $G_1, G_2$ and their duals $\Gamma_1, \Gamma_2$):
Suppose $E$ is a coset in $\Gamma_2$ ...
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Subgroups of finite non-zero Haar measure of abelian locally compact groups
Is it true that every subgroup of finite non-zero Haar measure of an abelian locally compact group should be open and compact? This is obviously true for the case of discrete abelian groups. Thanks.
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Left introversion operators associated to function spaces on semigroups
I am stuck on the following question for quite sometime now. Please help, any comment is welcome.
Let $S$ be a topological semigroup and $\mathcal{F}$ be a translation invariant, conjugate closed ...
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Root of positive function in Fourier algebra
Let $G$ be a locally compact group, let $A(G)$ be the Fourier algebra of $G$. We think of $A(G)$ as a subalgebra of $C_0(G)$.
Question 1: Let $f\in A(G)$ be a function that is pointwise positive. ...
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Justification of the convolution operation of $L^1(G)$ functions where $G$ is a LCA group (measurability)
Suppose $G$ is a locally compact abelian Hausdorff group (LCA), and $\lambda$ is the Haar measure on it. We all know the convolution of two $L^1(\lambda)$ functions $f$ and $g$ on $G$ is defined as
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Understanding Bruhat's notion of Schwartz function
I am trying to understand Bruhat's generalized Schwartz functions over (Hausforff) locally compact Abelian groups [1], following this paper [2] by Osborne. There, the Schwartz-Bruhat space $\mathscr{...
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Is a reductive adelic group a Type I group?
I foresee that to experts of automorphic forms this question will sound unimportant or useless or even not worthy of an answer; but none of these are going to stop me from asking it!
The question is ...
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Why groups that admit Folner Sequences are amenable
I've been looking at Folner's Condition recently, and I'm struggling to find a proof for why the existence of a Folner sequence on a locally compact group implies that it is amenable (and the converse ...
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Basic question on minimal flows
I know that minimal flows are actions for which no proper closed invariant subsets exist, but I am unclear how to understand this concept.
If a coset flow on a quotient space Gamma/S is ergodic, ...
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When does a LCA group not contain a (closed) infinite cyclic subgroup?
If $G$ is an LCA (locally compact abelian) group, is there any 'nice' sufficient (or preferably necessary and sufficient) criteria for when $G$ does not contain a closed (and hence discrete in the ...
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Why is the dual of a torus the same as its fundamental group?
The set of continuous homomorphisms from a torus ${\mathbb T}^n = ({\mathbb R}/{\mathbb Z})^n \to {\mathbb R}/{\mathbb Z}$ can be identified with ${\mathbb Z}^n$ if we assign to each $k = (k_1, \ldots ...
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