CDAM: Computational, Discrete and Applicable Mathematics@LSE
CDAM Research Report, LSE-CDAM-2008-10
August 2008 (Revised January 2009)
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CDAM Research Report, LSE-CDAM-2008-10August 2008 (Revised January 2009) |
Normed groups: dichotomy and duality
N. H. Bingham and A. J. Ostaszewski
The key vehicle of the recent development of a topological theory of regular variation based on topological dynamics BOst13, and embracing its classical univariate counterpart (cf. BGT) as well as fragmentary multivariate (mostly Euclidean) theories (eg MeSh, Res, Ya), are groups with a right-invariant metric carrying flows. Following the vector paradigm, they are best seen as normed groups. That concept only occasionally appears explicitly in the literature despite its frequent disguised presence, and despite a respectable lineage traceable back to the Pettis closed-graph theorem, to the Birkhoff-Kakutani metrization theorem and further back still to Banach's Théorie des opérations linéaires. We collect together known salient features and develop their theory including Steinhaus theory unified by the Category Embedding Theorem BOst11, the associated themes of subadditivity and convexity, and a topological duality inherent to topological dynamics. We study the latter both for its independent interest and as a foundation for topological regular variation.A PDF file (471 kB) with the full contents of this report can be downloaded by clicking here.
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