Contributions to the duality theory of abelian topological groups and to the theory of nuclear groups
Abstract For a topological group G, the group G* of continuous homomorphisms (characters) into :=z∈ℂ: |z| = 1 endowed with the compact-open topology is called the character group of G and G is named ( Pontryagin) reflexive if the canonical homomorphism , x ↦ (χ ↦ χ(x)), is a topological isomorphism. A comprehensive exposition of duality theory is given here. In particular, settings closely related to the theory of vector spaces (like local quasi-convexity and the corresponding hull) are studied...