A Note on the Peter-Weyl Theorem

Abstract

We introduce some classical concepts in the representation theory of compact groups, in order to use them for a new generalization of the Peter-Weyl Theorem. We mostly deal with functions on locally compact groups possessing large nontrivial compact open subgroups: in fact, we show that these functions can be approximated via others which are locally identical to the well known representative functions.

11 pages, 4 figures