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Why are we defining character groups differently for additive and multiplicative group in Ta...

Context: I've just started reading Tate's thesis. In it, we start with a local field $k.$ The aim of the section is to describe the structure of the character groups of $k^+$ (the additive group) and …
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Why do we consider characters to $\mathbb{C}$ and not $\mathfrak{p}$-adic or $\mathbb{R}$?

Context: I've been reading Tate's thesis, and in it, we defined the character group for $k^{*}$ and $k^{+}$ for a local field $k$. Here we take the range of the characters to be $S_{1}$ for $k^{+}$ an …
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Are integration over restricted direct products only useful for specific functions?

So I've been reading Tate's thesis currently. In that we have defined integration of functions on $G$, which are basically formed from restricted direct products of locally compact groups $G_{\mathfra …
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