An approach to duality on abelian precompact groups

We prove that every dense subgroup of a topological abelian group has the same ‘convergence dual’ as the whole group. By the ‘convergence dual’ we mean the character group endowed with the continuous convergence structure. We draw as a corollary that the continuous convergence structure on the chara...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Chasco, M.J., Martín Peinador, Elena
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/49680
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49680
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:515.1
Pontryagin duality
Compact
Topología
1210 Topología
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Sumario:We prove that every dense subgroup of a topological abelian group has the same ‘convergence dual’ as the whole group. By the ‘convergence dual’ we mean the character group endowed with the continuous convergence structure. We draw as a corollary that the continuous convergence structure on the character group of a precompact group is discrete and therefore a non-compact precompact group is never reflexive in the sense of convergence. We do not know if the same statement holds also for reflexivity in the sense of Pontryagin; at least in the category of metrizable abelian groups it does.