AMENABILITY OF WEIGHTED MEASURE ALGEBRAS

Document Type : Regular Paper

Authors

1 Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, I. R. of Iran

2 2Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, 424 Hafez Avenue, Tehran 15914, I. R. of Iran

Abstract

Let G be a locally compact group, and let ω be a weight on G. We show that the weighted
measure algebra M(G,ω) is amenable if and only if G is a discrete, amenable group and
sup{ω(g) ω(g−1) : g ∈ G} < ∞, where ω(g) ≥ 1 (g ∈ G) .

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