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Kloss’ “general principle of convergence”, until now available for first-countable groups, is established for a wider class including e.g. all locally compact commutative groups. The proof combines Csiszár’s method with a Fourier analytic technique.
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Ruzsa, I.Z. (1982). Infinite convolution and shift-convergence of measures on topological groups. In: Heyer, H. (eds) Probability Measures on Groups. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 928. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0093232
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