Download or read book Topological Groups and the Pontryagin-van Kampen Duality written by Lydia Außenhofer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to topological groups and the structure theory of locally compact abelian groups, with a special emphasis on Pontryagin-van Kampen duality, including a completely self-contained elementary proof of the duality theorem. Further related topics and applications are treated in separate chapters and in the appendix.