On a New Segal Algebra.
We show how the measure theory of regular compacted-Borel measures defined on the -ring of compacted-Borel subsets of a weighted locally compact group provides a compatible framework for defining the corresponding Beurling measure algebra , thus filling a gap in the literature.
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...
Various proofs of the Factorization Theorem for representations of Banach algebras are compared with its original proof due to P. Cohen.
We discuss some results about derivations and crossed homomorphisms arising in the context of locally compact groups and their group algebras, in particular, L¹(G), the von Neumann algebra VN(G) and actions of G on related algebras. We answer a question of Dales, Ghahramani, Grønbæk, showing that L¹(G) is always permanently weakly amenable. Then we show that for some classes of groups (e.g. IN-groups) the homology of L¹(G) with coefficients in VN(G) is trivial. But this is no longer true, in general,...
We study the notion of left -biflatness for Segal algebras and semigroup algebras. We show that the Segal algebra is left -biflat if and only if is amenable. Also we characterize left -biflatness of semigroup algebra in terms of biflatness, when is a Clifford semigroup.
If G is a discrete group, the algebra CD(G) of convolution dominated operators on l²(G) (see Definition 1 below) is canonically isomorphic to a twisted L¹-algebra . For amenable and rigidly symmetric G we use this to show that any element of this algebra is invertible in the algebra itself if and only if it is invertible as a bounded operator on l²(G), i.e. CD(G) is spectral in the algebra of all bounded operators. For G commutative, this result is known (see [1], [6]), for G noncommutative discrete...
In the sequel of the work of H. G. Dales and M. E. Polyakov we give a few more examples of modules over the Banach algebra L¹(G) whose projectivity resp. flatness implies the compactness resp. amenability of the locally compact group G.