We obtain characterizations of left character amenable Banach algebras in terms of the existence of left ϕ-approximate diagonals and left ϕ-virtual diagonals. We introduce the left character amenability constant and find this constant for some Banach algebras. For all locally compact groups G, we show that the Fourier-Stieltjes algebra B(G) is C-character amenable with C < 2 if and only if G is compact. We prove that if A is a character amenable, reflexive, commutative Banach algebra, then A...

Let G be a locally compact Polish group with an invariant metric. We provide sufficient and necessary conditions for the existence of a compact set A ⊆ G and a sequence $g_n\in G$ such that ${\mu }^{\ast n}\left(g_{n}A\right)\equiv 1$ for all n. It is noticed that such measures μ form a meager subset of all probabilities on G in the weak measure topology. If for some k the convolution power ${\mu }^{\ast k}$ has nontrivial absolutely continuous component then a similar characterization is obtained for any locally compact, σ-compact, unimodular, Hausdorff topological...

Let $G$ be a Polish group with an invariant metric. We characterize those probability measures $\mu$ on $G$ so that there exist a sequence $g_n\in G$ and a compact set $A\subseteq G$ with   ${\mu }^{*n}\left(g_{n}A\right)\equiv 1$   for all $n$.

Let G be a locally compact group, and let U be its unitary representation on a Hilbert space H. Endow the space ℒ(H) of bounded linear operators on H with the weak operator topology. We prove that if U is a measurable map from G to ℒ(H) then it is continuous. This result was known before for separable H. We also prove that the following statement is consistent with ZFC: every measurable homomorphism from a locally compact group into any topological group is continuous.

Let $C{V}_p\left(F\right)$ be the left convolution operators on $L^p\left(G\right)$ with support included in F and $M_p\left(F\right)$ denote those which are norm limits of convolution by bounded measures in M(F). Conditions on F are given which insure that $C{V}_p\left(F\right)$, $C{V}_p\left(F\right)/M_p\left(F\right)$ and $C{V}_p\left(F\right)/W$ are as big as they can be, namely have $l^{\infty }$ as a quotient, where the ergodic space W contains, and at times is very big relative to $M_p\left(F\right)$. Other subspaces of $C{V}_p\left(F\right)$ are considered. These improve results of Cowling and Fournier, Price and Edwards, Lust-Piquard, and others.

The convolution of ultrafilters of closed subsets of a normal topological group is considered as a substitute of the extension onto ${\left(\beta \right)}^2$ of the group operation. We find a subclass of ultrafilters for which this extension is well-defined and give some examples of pathologies. Next, for a given locally compact group and its dense subgroup , we construct subsets of β algebraically isomorphic to . Finally, we check whether the natural mapping from β onto β is a homomorphism with respect to the extension...

Let G be a locally compact group. Let σ be a continuous involution of G and let μ be a complex bounded measure. In this paper we study the generalized d'Alembert functional equationD(μ)    ∫G f(xty)dμ(t) + ∫G f(xtσ(y))dμ(t) = 2f(x)f(y) x, y ∈ G;where f: G → C to be determined is a measurable and essentially bounded function.

Let $\tau$ be a continuous unitary representation of the locally compact group $G$ on the Hilbert space $H_{\tau }$. Let $C_{\tau }^{*}[V{N}_{\tau }]$ be the $C^{*}[W^{*}]$ algebra generated by$$(L^1\left(G\right))\text{and}{M}_{\tau }(C_{\tau }^{*})=\left\{\phi \in V{N}_{\tau };\phi C_{\tau }^{*}+C_{\tau }^{*}\phi \subset C_{\tau }^{*}\right\}.$$The main result obtained in this paper is Theorem 1:If $G$ is $\sigma$-compact and $M_{\tau }(C_{\tau }^{*})=V{N}_{\tau }$ then supp $\tau$ is discrete and each $\pi$ in supp $\tau$ in CCR.We apply this theorem to the quasiregular representation $\tau ={\pi }_H$ and obtain among other results that $M_{{\pi }_H}(C_{{\pi }_H}^{*})=V{N}_{{\pi }_H}$ implies in many cases that $G/H$ is a compact coset space.