The distributive character of Haar measures #
Given a group G acting by additive morphisms on a locally compact additive commutative group A,
and an element g : G, one can pull back the Haar measure μ of A
along the map (g • ·) : A → A to get another Haar measure μ' on A.
By unicity of Haar measures, there exists some nonnegative real number r such that μ' = r • μ.
We can thus define a map distribHaarChar : G → ℝ≥0 sending g to its associated real number r.
Furthermore, this number doesn't depend on the Haar measure μ we started with,
and distribHaarChar is a group homomorphism.
See also #
MeasureTheory.Measure.modularCharacter for the analogous definition when the action is
multiplicative instead of distributive.
The distributive Haar character of a group G acting distributively on a group A is the
unique positive real number Δ(g) such that μ (g • s) = Δ(g) * μ s for all Haar
measures μ : Measure A, set s : Set A and g : G.
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