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replaced "rhetoric" with "theoretic" (although I was amused by the original wording!)
Danny Ruberman
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Is Serre duality related to Pontryagin duality?

I am wondering if there is some relationship between Serre duality and Pontryagin duality for compact complex manifolds. In this case Serre duality reduces to the commutativity of Hodge-star operator with the Laplace operator. While differential operators can be written as pseudo-differential operators with symbols in the cotangent bundle, I do not know how this is related to the usual character theoretic characterization of Pontryagin duality.

A compact manifold is usually not a group, and there is no analgous Haar measure on it. Since Fourier inversion still holds for a suitable class of functions, I am wondering if there is any way to extend the Pontryagin duality to more "global" objects. Is it possible to incorporate the notion of cotangent bundle (or dualizing sheaf) in Pontryagin duality? Is it possible to interpret symbol of operators corresponding to elements in some "dual group"? I am not sure if this is a well-investigated topic, however after extensive literature search I did not find anything.

I am totally okay with a pure algebraic perspective without using analytical part of Hodge theory (say using Gronthendieck duality or something).

Bombyx mori
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