Vector-valued pseudo almost periodic functions are defined and their properties are investigated. The vector-valued functions contain many known functions as special cases. A unique decomposition theorem is given to show that a vector-valued pseudo almost periodic function is a sum of an almost periodic function and an ergodic perturbation.

Let $G$ be a compactly generated locally compact group and let $U$ be a compact generating set. We prove that if $G$ has polynomial growth, then ${\left(U^n\right)}_{n\in \mathbb{N}}$ is a Følner sequence and we give a polynomial estimate of the rate of decay of $\frac{\mu (U^{n+1}\setminus U^n)}{\mu \left(U^n\right)}.$ Our proof uses only two ingredients: the doubling property and a weak geodesic property that we call Property (M). As a matter of fact, the result remains true in a wide class of doubling metric measured spaces including manifolds and graphs. As an application, we obtain a $L^p$-pointwise...

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the Walsh-Marcinkiewicz means on the Hardy space H p, when 0 < p < 2/3. We define a weighted maximal operator of Walsh-Marcinkiewicz means and establish some of its properties. With its aid we provide a necessary and sufficient condition for convergence of the Walsh-Marcinkiewicz means in terms of modulus of continuity on the Hardy space H p, and prove a strong convergence theorem for the Walsh-Marcinkiewicz means.

Let L be the distinguished Laplacian on certain semidirect products of ℝ by ℝⁿ which are of ax + b type. We prove pointwise estimates for the convolution kernels of spectrally localized wave operators of the form $e^{it\surd L}\psi (\surd L/\lambda )$ for arbitrary time t and arbitrary λ > 0, where ψ is a smooth bump function supported in [-2,2] if λ ≤ 1 and in [1,2] if λ ≥ 1. As a corollary, we reprove a basic multiplier estimate of Hebisch and Steger [Math. Z. 245 (2003)] for this particular class of groups, and derive Sobolev...

Let WF⁎ be the wave front set with respect to $C^{\infty }$, quasi analyticity or analyticity, and let K be the kernel of a positive operator from $C{₀}^{\infty }$ to ’. We prove that if ξ ≠ 0 and (x,x,ξ,-ξ) ∉ WF⁎(K), then (x,y,ξ,-η) ∉ WF⁎(K) and (y,x,η,-ξ) ∉ WF⁎(K) for any y,η. We apply this property to positive elements with respect to the weighted convolution $u{\ast }_B\phi \left(x\right)=\int u(x-y)\phi \left(y\right)B(x,y)dy$, where $B\in C^{\infty }$ is appropriate, and prove that if $(u{\ast }_B\phi ,\phi )\ge 0$ for every $\phi \in C{₀}^{\infty }$ and (0,ξ) ∉ WF⁎(u), then (x,ξ) ∉ WF⁎(u) for any x.

We study the weak amenability of a general measure algebra M(X) on a locally compact space X. First we show that not all general measure multiplications are separately weak* continuous; moreover, under certain conditions, weak amenability of M(X)** implies weak amenability of M(X). The main result of this paper states that there is a general measure algebra M(X) such that M(X) and M(X)** are weakly amenable without X being a discrete topological space.

It is known that a Banach algebra inherits amenability from its second Banach dual **. No example is yet known whether this fails if one considers the weak amenability instead, but the property is known to hold for the group algebra L¹(G), the Fourier algebra A(G) when G is amenable, the Banach algebras which are left ideals in **, the dual Banach algebras, and the Banach algebras which are Arens regular and have every derivation from into * weakly compact. In this paper, we extend this class of...

Weak amenability of ℓ¹(G,ω) for commutative groups G was completely characterized by N. Gronbaek in 1989. In this paper, we study weak amenability of ℓ¹(G,ω) for two important non-commutative locally compact groups G: the free group ₂, which is non-amenable, and the amenable (ax + b)-group. We show that the condition that characterizes weak amenability of ℓ¹(G,ω) for commutative groups G remains necessary for the non-commutative case, but it is sufficient neither for ℓ¹(₂,ω) nor for ℓ¹((ax + b),ω)...

We show that if ϕ is a continuous homomorphism between weighted convolution algebras on ℝ⁺, then its extension to the corresponding measure algebras is always weak* continuous. A key step in the proof is showing that our earlier result that normalized powers of functions in a convolution algebra on ℝ⁺ go to zero weak* is also true for most measures in the corresponding measure algebra. For some algebras, we can determine precisely which measures have normalized powers converging to zero weak*. We...