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Pontryagin duality and the structure of locally compact abelian groups / Sidney A. Morris.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: London Mathematical Society lecture note series ; 29.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1977Description: 1 online resource (viii, 128 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511600722 (ebook)
Other title:
  • Pontryagin Duality & the Structure of Locally Compact Abelian Groups
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 512/.55 19
LOC classification:
  • QA387 .M67 1977
Online resources: Summary: These lecture notes begin with an introduction to topological groups and proceed to a proof of the important Pontryagin-van Kampen duality theorem and a detailed exposition of the structure of locally compact abelian groups. Measure theory and Banach algebra are entirely avoided and only a small amount of group theory and topology is required, dealing with the subject in an elementary fashion. With about a hundred exercises for the student, it is a suitable text for first-year graduate courses.
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These lecture notes begin with an introduction to topological groups and proceed to a proof of the important Pontryagin-van Kampen duality theorem and a detailed exposition of the structure of locally compact abelian groups. Measure theory and Banach algebra are entirely avoided and only a small amount of group theory and topology is required, dealing with the subject in an elementary fashion. With about a hundred exercises for the student, it is a suitable text for first-year graduate courses.

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