A note on Pontryagin duality and continuous logic
Logic
2022-09-20 v2
Abstract
We exhibit Pontryagin duality as a special case of Stone duality in a continuous logic setting. More specifically, given an abelian topological group , and the family (group) of continuous homomorphisms from to the circle group , then, viewing equipped with the collection as a continuous logic structure , we show that the local type space is precisely the Pontryagin dual of the group where the latter is considered as a discrete group. We conclude, using Pontryagin duality (between compact and discrete abelian groups), that is the Bohr compactification of the topological group .
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@article{arxiv.2204.11323,
title = {A note on Pontryagin duality and continuous logic},
author = {Nicolas Chavarria and Anand Pillay},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11323},
year = {2022}
}
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11 pages