By the end of Chapter 2 we had the full power of the Pontryagin Duality Theorem for compact abelian groups and for discrete abelian groups. Locally compact abelian groups are much closer to compact abelian groups than is apparent at first sight.

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It is also important to know that dryrot is a bigger problem in many areas that termite damage, and a termite inspection generally ignores dryrot.