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)...

Let $𝒜$ be a dual Banach algebra. We investigate the first weak${}^{*}$-continuous cohomology group of $𝒜$ with coefficients in $𝒜$. Hence, we obtain conditions on $𝒜$ for which $$H_{w^{*}}^1(𝒜,𝒜)=\left\{0\right\}.$$