A characterization of Gaussian measures on locally compact Abelian groups

Let and be independent random variables having equal variance. In order that + and – be independent, it is necessary and sufficient that and have normal distributions. This result of Bernshtein [1] is carried over in [7] to the case when and take values in a locally compact Abelian group. In the present note, a characterization of Gaussian measures on locally compact Abelian groups is given in which in place of + and –, functions of and are considered which satisfy the associativity equation.Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 22, No. 5, pp. 759–762, November, 1977.