Weak amenability and semidirect products in simple Lie groups.
It is shown that if G is a weakly amenable unimodular group then the Banach algebra , where is the Figà-Talamanca-Herz Banach algebra of G, is a dual Banach space with the Radon-Nikodym property if 1 ≤ r ≤ max(p,p’). This does not hold if p = 2 and r > 2.