nLab locally compact topological group

Contents

Context

Topology

topology (point-set topology, point-free topology)

see also differential topology, algebraic topology, functional analysis and topological homotopy theory

Introduction

Basic concepts

Universal constructions

Extra stuff, structure, properties

Examples

Basic statements

Theorems

Analysis Theorems

topological homotopy theory

Group Theory

Contents

Definition

A priori a locally compact topological group is a topological group GG whose underlying topological space is locally compact.

Typically it is also assumed that GG is Hausdorff. (Notice that if not, then G/{1}¯G/\overline{\{1\}} is Hausdorff.).

One often says just “locally compact group”.

Properties

In harmonic analysis

We take here locally compact groups GG to be also Hausdorff.

Locally compact topological groups are the standard object of study in classical abstract harmonic analysis. The crucial properties of locally compact groups is that they posses a left (right) Haar measure ρ\rho and that L 1(ρ)L^1(\rho) has a structure of a Banach **-algebra.

A left (right) Haar measure on a locally compact topological group is a nonzero Radon measure which is invariant under the left (right) multiplications by elements in the group. A topological subgroup HH of a locally compact topological group GG is itself locally compact (in induced topology) iff it is closed in GG.

Completeness

Again taking locally compact groups GG to be Hausdorff, such are complete both with respect to their left uniformity and their right uniformity. For if {x α}\{x_\alpha\} is a Cauchy net in GG and UU is a compact neighborhood of the identity ee, then there is α\alpha so large that x βx α 1Ux_\beta x_\alpha^{-1} \in U for all βα\beta \geq \alpha. Those elements converge to a point xUx \in U since UU is compact, and the original net converges to xx αx \cdot x_\alpha. A similar argument is used for the right uniformity.

Pontrjagin duality

See at Pontrjagin duality.

Kazhdan’s property (T)

Kazhdan's property (T)

References

  • Linus Kramer, Locally Compact Groups, 2017 (pdf, pdf)

  • Gerald B. Folland, A course in abstract harmonic analysis, Studies in Adv. Math. CRC Press 1995

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