A note on Pontryagin duality and continuous logic

DOI10.1016/J.TOPOL.2022.108260MaRDI QIDQ6397334arXivFDO

Authors Nicolas Chavarria, Anand Pillay

Publication date 24 April 2022

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mathematical logic and foundations (03-XX)

Abstract: We exhibit Pontryagin duality as a special case of Stone duality in a continuous logic setting. More specifically, given an abelian topological group $A$, and $mathcalF$ the family (group) of continuous homomorphisms from $A$ to the circle group $mathbbT$, then, viewing $(A,+)$ equipped with the collection $mathcalF$ as a continuous logic structure $M$, we show that the local type space $S_{m}athcalF(M)$ is precisely the Pontryagin dual of the group $mathcalF$ where the latter is considered as a discrete group. We conclude, using Pontryagin duality (between compact and discrete abelian groups), that $S_{m}athcalF(M)$ is the Bohr compactification of the topological group $A$.

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