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Amenability and ergodic properties of topological groups: from Bogolyubov onwards

Group Theory 2015-07-24 v2

Abstract

The purpose of this expository article is to revisit the notions of amenability and ergodicity, and to point out that they appear for topological groups that are not necessarily locally compact in articles by Bogolyubov (1939), Fomin (1950), Dixmier (1950), and Rickert (1967).

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@article{arxiv.1404.7030,
  title  = {Amenability and ergodic properties of topological groups: from Bogolyubov onwards},
  author = {Rostislav Grigorchuk and Pierre de la Harpe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7030},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Terminology has been changed for reasons explained in Remark 3.15. Otherwise, minor corrections have been made