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To do harmonic analysis on a global field F, one needs to introduce two locally compact abelian groups: A F , the adele group, and I F , the idele group.
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Ramakrishnan, D., Valenza, R.J. (1999). Adeles, Ideles, and the Class Groups. In: Fourier Analysis on Number Fields. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 186. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3085-2_5
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