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Indefinite functions on commutative groups

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The purpose of this paper is to study indefinite functions of orderk on commutative locally compact groups. In section 3 we establish some fundamental properties of these functions. Using the results of this section we get a characterization for indefinite functions of order one (section 4). In section 5 we give a decomposition of measurable indefinite functions.

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Sasvári, Z. Indefinite functions on commutative groups. Monatshefte für Mathematik 100, 223–238 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01299270

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