Locally compact abelian groups with symplectic self-duality

Abstract

Is every locally compact abelian group which admits a symplectic self-duality isomorphic to the product of a locally compact abelian group and its Pontryagin dual? Several sufficient conditions, covering all the typical applications are found. Counterexamples are produced by studying a seemingly unrelated question about the structure of maximal isotropic subgroups of finite abelian groups with symplectic self-duality (where the original question always has an affirmative answer).

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• Homological algebra with locally compact abelian groups
• Inductive Algebras for Finite Heisenberg Groups

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