Let G be a locally compact group and let π be a unitary representation. We study amenability and H-amenability of π in terms of the weak closure of (π ⊗ π)(G) and factorization properties of associated coefficient subspaces (or subalgebras) in B(G). By applying these results, we obtain some new characterizations of amenable groups.
Let G be a locally compact group. Its dual space, G*, is the set of all extreme points of the set of normalized continuous positive definite functions of G. In the early 1970s, Granirer and Rudin proved independently that if G is amenable as discrete, then G is discrete if and only if all the translation invariant means on are topologically invariant. In this paper, we define and study G*-translation operators on VN(G) via G* and investigate the problem of the existence of G*-translation invariant...
A method is developed for proving non-amenability of certain automorphism groups of countable structures and is used to show that the automorphism groups of the random poset and random distributive lattice are not amenable. The universal minimal flow of the automorphism group of the random distributive lattice is computed as a canonical space of linear orderings but it is also shown that the class of finite distributive lattices does not admit hereditary order expansions with the Amalgamation Property....
Let denote the isometry group of . We prove that if G is a paradoxical subgroup of then there exist G-equidecomposable Jordan domains with piecewise smooth boundaries and having different volumes. On the other hand, we construct a system of Jordan domains with differentiable boundaries and of the same volume such that has the cardinality of the continuum, and for every amenable subgroup G of , the elements of are not G-equidecomposable; moreover, their interiors are not G-equidecomposable...
We discuss equivariance for linear liftings of measurable functions. Existence is established when a transformation group acts amenably, as e.g. the Möbius group of the projective line. Since the general proof is very simple but not explicit, we also provide a much more explicit lifting for semisimple Lie groups acting on their Furstenberg boundary, using unrestricted Fatou convergence. This setting is relevant to -cocycles for characteristic classes.