The dual Haar measure is the scale of Haar measure on the Pontryagin dual group compatible with Fourier inversion on a locally compact abelian group. It can be constructed without first assuming inversion: for a compactly supported test function , choose a finite sum of convolution squares with on its support and define . The Bochner consistency identity for convolution squares makes this independent of the choice. Modulation by a character shows is invariant under dual translation; the Riesz representation on compactly supported continuous functions gives the measure. It satisfies and scales reciprocally when is rescaled.
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