Download or read book The Structure of Compact Groups written by Karl H. Hofmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed both as a textbook for high-level graduate courses and as a reference for researchers who need to apply the structure and representation theory of compact groups. A gentle introduction to compact groups and their representation theory is followed by self-contained courses on linear and compact Lie groups, and on locally compact abelian groups. This fourth edition was updated with the latest developments in the field.