Open subgroups and Pontryagin duality (Q1323394)

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    Open subgroups and Pontryagin duality (English)
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    15 June 1994
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    An abelian topological group is called reflexive if the evaluation map \(G\to G\widehat{\phantom{x}}\widehat{\phantom{x}}\) is a topological isomorphism of \(G\) onto its second character group. We say that \(G\) is strongly reflexive if all closed subgroups and Hausdorff quotient groups of \(G\) and of \(G\widehat{\phantom{x}}\) are reflexive. Let \(A\) be an open subgroup of \(G\); it is proved that \(G\) is reflexive (resp. strongly reflexive) if and only if \(A\) is reflexive (resp. strongly reflexive).
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    Pontryagin duality
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    strongly reflexive groups
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    abelian topological group
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    character group
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    Hausdorff quotient groups
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    open subgroup
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