Haar-open sets: a right way of generalizing the Steinhaus sum theorem to non-locally compact groups

Abstract

Let $X$ be the countable product of Abelian locally compact Polish groups and $A,B\subset X$ be two Borel sets, which are not Haar-null in $X$. We prove that the sum-set $A+B:=\{a+b:a\in A,b\in B\}$ is Haar-open in the sense that for any non-empty compact subset $K\subset X$ and point $p\in K$ there exists a point $x\in X$ such that the set $K\cap (A+B+x)$ is a neighborhood of $p$ in $K$. This is a generalization of the classical Steinhaus Theorem (1920) to non-locally compact groups. We do not know if this generalization holds for Banach spaces.

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