‎In this note‎, ‎we consider the concentration function problem for a continuous action of a locally compact group $G$ on a locally compact Hausdorff space $X$‎. ‎We prove a necessary and sufficient condition for the concentration functions of a‎ ‎spread-out irreducible probability measure $mu$ on $G$ to converge to zero.

The geometry of moduli spaces of complex abelian varieties and of compactifications of those moduli spaces has been the object of much study in the last few years. Given such a compactified moduli space it is natural to ask about the fundamental group of a resolution of singularities. This problem has been studied in some special cases, for instance in [K], [HK] and [HS]. It follows from the re...

For a locally quasi-convex (lqc) abelian group G, we describe all compatible lqc topologies on G and apply this result to the Mackey problem for groups. We characterize groups which are or admit topology provide characterization of two whose product is Mackey. convex spaces