Let G denote the full subcategory of topological abelian groups consisting of the groups that can be embedded algebraically and topologically into a product of locally compact abelian groups. We show that there is a full coreflective subcategory S of G that contains all locally compact groups and is *-autonomous. This means that for all G,H in S there is an “internal hom” G −◦H whose underlying...

Let G be a locally compact group. We show that its Fourier algebra A(G) is amenable if and only if G has an abelian subgroup of finite index, and that its Fourier– Stieltjes algebra B(G) is amenable if and only if G has a compact, abelian subgroup of finite index.

We discuss sharpness in the Hausdorff Young theorem for unimodular groups. First the functions on unimodular locally compact groups for which equality holds in the Hausdorff Young theorem are determined. Then it is shown that the Hausdorff Young theorem is not sharp on any unimodular group which contains the real Une as a direct summand, or any unimodular group which contains an Abelian normal ...

Let G be a locally compact abelian group with dual group Ĝ. The Hausdorff–Young theorem states that if f ∈ Lp(G), where 1 ≤ p ≤ 2, then its Fourier transform Fp(f) belongs to Lq(Ĝ) (where 1 p + 1 q = 1) and ||Fp(f)||q ≤ ||f ||p. Kunze and Terp extended this to unimodular and locally compact groups, respectively. We further generalize this result to an arbitrary locally compact quantum group G b...