The series De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded in 1982 by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel.
The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist.
The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level.
The series De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics is indexed in MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) and Scopus.
Editor-in-Chief
Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut, USA
Editorial Board
Carstensen Carsten, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
Gavril Farkas, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany
Nicola Fusco, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy
Fritz Gesztesy, Baylor University, USA
Zenghu Li, Beijing Normal University, China
Karl-Hermann Neeb, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
René L. Schilling, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Please submit book proposals to Guozhen Lu
Autorentext
Lydia Außenhofer, University of Passau, Germany; Dikran Dikranjan and Anna Giordano Bruno, University of Udine, Italy.
Klappentext
This book provides an introduction to topological groups and the structure theory of locally compact abelian groups, with a special emphasis on Pontryagin-van Kampen duality, including a completely self-contained elementary proof of the duality theorem. Further related topics and applications are treated in separate chapters and in the appendix.