Tensor products of topological abelian groups and Pontryagin duality
Abstract
Let be the group of all -valued homomorphisms of the Baer-Specker group . The group is algebraically isomorphic to , the infinite direct sum of the group of integers, and equipped with the topology of pointwise convergence on , becomes a non reflexive prodiscrete group. It was an open question to find its dual group . Here, we answer this question by proving that is topologically isomorphic to , the (locally quasi-convex) tensor product of and . Furthermore, we investigate the reflexivity properties of the groups of , the group of all -valued continuous functions on equipped with the pointwise convergence topology, and , the free abelian group on a -dimensional space equipped with the topology of pointwise convergence topology on . In particular, we prove that and we establish the existence of -dimensional spaces such that is Pontryagin reflexive.
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@article{arxiv.2309.01223,
title = {Tensor products of topological abelian groups and Pontryagin duality},
author = {María V. Ferrer and Julio Hernández-Arzusa and Salvador Hernández},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.01223},
year = {2024}
}