Embeddings of locally compact abelian p-groups in Hawaiian groups

We show that locally compact abelian p-groups can be embedded in the first Hawaiian group on a compact path connected subspace of the Euclidean space of dimension four. This result gives a new geometric interpretation for the classification of locally compact abelian groups which are rich in commuting closed subgroups. It is then possible to introduce the idea of an algebraic topology for topologically modular locally compact groups via the geometry of the Hawaiian earring. Among other things, we find applications for locally compact groups which are just noncompact.

Popular Differences for Right Isosceles Triangles

For a subset $A$ of $\{1,2,\ldots,N\}^2$ of size $\alpha N^2$ we show existence of $(m,n)\neq(0,0)$ such that the set $A$ contains at least $(\alpha^3 - o(1))N^2$ triples of points of the form $(a,b)$, $(a+m,b+n)$, $(a-n,b+m)$. This answers a question by Ackelsberg, Bergelson, and Best. The same approach also establishes the corresponding result for compact abelian groups. Furthermore, for a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$ we comment on exponential smallness of subsets of $(\mathbb{F}_q^n)^2$ that avoid the aforementioned configuration. The proofs are minor modifications of the existing proofs regarding three-term arithmetic progressions.

Fourier duality in the Brascamp–Lieb inequality

It was observed recently in work of Bez, Buschenhenke, Cowling, Flock and the first author, that the euclidean Brascamp–Lieb inequality satisfies a natural and useful Fourier duality property. The purpose of this paper is to establish an appropriate discrete analogue of this. Our main result identifies the Brascamp–Lieb constants on (finitely-generated) discrete abelian groups with Brascamp–Lieb constants on their (Pontryagin) duals. As will become apparent, the natural setting for this duality principle is that of locally compact abelian groups, and this raises basic questions about Brascamp–Lieb constants formulated in this generality.

Gordon's conjectures 1 and 2: Pontryagin-van Kampen duality in the hyperfinite setting

Using the ideas of E. I. Gordon we present and farther advancean approach, based on nonstandard analysis, to simultaneousapproximations of locally compact abelian groups and their dualsby (hyper)finite abelian groups, as well as to approximations ofvarious types of Fourier transforms on them by the discrete Fouriertransform. Combining some methods of nonstandard analysis andadditive combinatorics we prove the three Gordon's Conjectureswhich were open since 1991 and are crucial both in the formulationsand proofs of the LCA groups and Fourier transform approximationtheorems