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An extension of Pontryagin duality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

B.J. Day
B.J. Day
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Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales.
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Let V denote the symmetric monoidal closed category of limit-space abelian groups and let L denote the full subcategory of locally compact Hausdorff abelian groups. Results of Samuel Kaplan on extension of characters to products of L–groups are used to show that each closed subgroup of a product of L-groups is a limit of L–groups. From this we deduce that the limit closure of L in V is reflective in V and has every group Pontryagin reflexive with respect to the structure of continuous convergence on the character groups. The basic duality L ≃ Lop is then extended.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , December 1978 , pp. 445 - 456
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1979

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