Let G be an algebraic group defined over a number field k. By choosing a lifting of G to a group scheme over 6' s c k, the ring of S-integers for some finite set of places S of k, we may define G(C,~), where (5~, c k~ is the ring of integers in the vadic completion of k for all non-archimedean places vr In this way, we can define the adelic points G(Ak). Since different choices of lifting will ...