Biflatness and Pseudo-Amenability of Segal Algebras

Samei, Ebrahim ; Spronk, Nico ; Stokke, Ross

Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 62 (2010) no. 4, pp. 845-869

Résumé

We investigate generalized amenability and biflatness properties of various (operator) Segal algebras in both the group algebra, ${{L}^{1}}\left( G \right)$ , and the Fourier algebra, $A\left( G \right)$ , of a locally compact group $G$ .

Détail

DOI : 10.4153/CJM-2010-044-4

Mots-clés : 43A20, 43A30, 46H25, 46H10, 46H20, 46L07, Segal algebra, pseudo-amenable Banach algebra, biflat Banach algebra

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