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Locally Compact Group


A locally compact group is a topological group whose underlying topological space is locally compact. Every locally compact Hausdorff group admits a nonzero regular Borel measure that is invariant under left translation. Such a measure is unique up to multiplication by a positive constant and is called a Haar measure.

Discrete groups, finite-dimensional Lie groups, and compact groups are locally compact groups.


See also

Haar Measure, Lie Group, Topological Group

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References

Hewitt, E. and Ross, K. A. Abstract Harmonic Analysis, Vol. 1, 2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1979.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Locally Compact Group." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/LocallyCompactGroup.html

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