On infiniteley divisible distributions on locally compact Abelian groups (Q1592267)

The theory of infinite divisibility on abstract spaces is rather similar to the theory on the real line, though, of course, there are specific problems. The author considers infinitely divisible (inf div) distributions on a locally compact group \(X\) and their charcteristic functions on the character group \(X^{*}\). He characterizes the inf div distributions without idempotent factor by means of limit distributions of triangular arrays. Semi-selfdecomposable distributions are introduced on (compact, second countable) topological fields, and shown to coincide with the distributions of limits of certain normed sums of iid random elements. A somewhat similar characterization is given for semistable distributions on \(p\)-adic fields.