Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction 1
3. 1 Hypergroups and their measure algebras 6
4. 2 The dual of a commutative hypergroup 74
5. 3 Some special classes of hypergroups 133
6. 4 Positive and negative definite functions and measures 258
7. 5 Convolution semigroups and divisibility of measures 317
8. 6 Transience of convolution semigroups 382
9. 7 Randomized sums of hypergroup-valued random variables 446
10. 8 Further topics 534
11. Bibliography 553
12. Examples 581
13. Symbols 589
14. Index 597