Karl Heinrich Hofmann and the Structure of Compact Groups and Pro-Lie Groups

Journal of Lie Theory

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2023, Pages 5-28

  Morris, Sidney A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

compact group; duality; LCA group; Lie algebra; Lie group; Pontryagin duality; pro Lie group; Topological group

Indexed keywords

EID: 85165564676     PISSN: 09495932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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