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

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Main Authors: Ferrer, María V., Hernández, S.
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author Ferrer, María V.
Hernández, S.
author_facet Ferrer, María V.
Hernández, S.
contents The \emph{Bohr compactification} of an arbitrary topological group $G$ is defined as the group compactification $(bG,b)$ with the following universal property: for every continuous homomorphism $h$ from $G$ into a compact group $K$ there is a continuous homomorphism $h^{b}$ from $bG$ into $K$ extending $h$ in the sense that $h=h^b \circ b$. The Bohr compactification $(bG,b)$ is the unique (up to equivalence) largest compactification of $G$. 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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spellingShingle Bohr compactification and Chu duality of non-abelian locally compact groups
Ferrer, María V.
Hernández, S.
Group Theory
General Topology
Representation Theory
The \emph{Bohr compactification} of an arbitrary topological group $G$ is defined as the group compactification $(bG,b)$ with the following universal property: for every continuous homomorphism $h$ from $G$ into a compact group $K$ there is a continuous homomorphism $h^{b}$ from $bG$ into $K$ extending $h$ in the sense that $h=h^b \circ b$. The Bohr compactification $(bG,b)$ is the unique (up to equivalence) largest compactification of $G$. 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.
title Bohr compactification and Chu duality of non-abelian locally compact groups
topic Group Theory
General Topology
Representation Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02627