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Bohr compactification and Chu duality of non-abelian locally compact groups

Group Theory 2025-02-25 v2 General Topology Representation Theory

Abstract

The \emph{Bohr compactification} of an arbitrary topological group GG is defined as the group compactification (bG,b)(bG,b) with the following universal property: for every continuous homomorphism hh from GG into a compact group KK there is a continuous homomorphism hbh^{b} from bGbG into KK extending hh in the sense that h=hbbh=h^b \circ b. The Bohr compactification (bG,b)(bG,b) is the unique (up to equivalence) largest compactification of GG. Although, for locally compact Abelian groups, the Bohr compactification is a big monster, for non-Abelian groups the situation is much more interesting and it can be said that all options are possible. Here we are interested in locally compact groups whose Bohr compactification is \emph{small}. Among other results, we characterize when the Bohr the Bohr compactification of a locally compact group is topologically isomorphic to its Chu or unitary quasi-dual. Our results fixe some incorrect statements appeared in the literature.

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@article{arxiv.2405.02627,
  title  = {Bohr compactification and Chu duality of non-abelian locally compact groups},
  author = {María V. Ferrer and S. Hernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.02627},
  year   = {2025}
}