An elementary approach to Haar integration and Pontryagin duality in locally compact abelian groups
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We offer an elementary proof of Pontryagin duality theorem for compact and discrete abelian groups. To this end we make use of an elementary proof of Peter-Weyl theorem due to Prodanov that makes no recourse to Haar integral. As a long series of applications of this approach we obtain proofs of Bohr von Neumann’s theorem on almost periodic functions, Comfort-Ross’ theorem on the description of the precompact topologies on abelian groups, and, last but not least, the existence of Haar integral in LCA groups.
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