Splitting of the Identity Component in Locally Compact Abelian Groups

Authors

Peter Loth, Sacred Heart UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1992

Abstract

In this paper we are concerned with the splitting of the identity component G₀ in an LCA group G. As Pontrjagin duality shows, this splitting is to the splitting of the torsion part tA in a discrete abelian group A, if G is assumed to be compact.

Comments

At the time of publication Peter Loth was affiliated with Wesleyan University.

Recommended Citation

Loth, Peter. "Splitting of the Identity Component in Locally Compact Abelian Groups." Rendiconti del Seminario Matematico della Università di Padova 88 (1992): 139-143.