This paper describes the historical background and motivation involved in the discovery (or invention) of Chu categories. In 1975, I began a sabbatical leave at the ETH in Zürich, with the idea of studying duality in categories in some depth. By this, I meant not such things as the duality between Boolean algebras and Stone spaces, nor between compact and discrete abelian groups, but rather sel...

It was in 1969 that I began my graduate studies on topological group theory and I often dived into one of the following five books. My favourite book “Abstract Harmonic Analysis” [1] by Ed Hewitt and Ken Ross contains both a proof of the Pontryagin-van Kampen Duality Theorem for locally compact abelian groups and the structure theory of locally compact abelian groups. Walter Rudin’s book “Fouri...

this article presents a unified approach to the abstract notions of partial convolution and involution in $l^p$-function spaces over semi-direct product of locally compact groups. let $h$ and $k$ be locally compact groups and $tau:hto aut(k)$ be a continuous homomorphism.  let $g_tau=hltimes_tau k$ be the semi-direct product of $h$ and $k$ with respect to $tau$. we define left and right $tau$-c...

We rst develop a notion of quadratic form on a locally compact abelian group. Under suitable hypotheses, we construct a probability measure on the set of closed maximal isotropic subspaces of a locally compact quadratic space over Fp. A random subspace chosen with respect to this measure is discrete with probability 1, and the dimension of its intersection with a xed compact open maximal isotro...