Group Algebras Acting on $$L^p$$ L p -Spaces

The canonical mapping on the product of a LCA group with its dual is shown to extend uniquely in a homomorphic and analytic way to the product of the respective complexifications.

In order to summarize the contents of this paper it is necessary to use some of the definitions in [5]. These definitions are repeated below at the beginning of Section 1. Although this paper adds to the material in [5] we have attempted to reduce the number of references to [o] to a minimum. An approximate diagonal in a Banach algebra 31 is a bounded net {ma} in 31 a for all a in 31 in the norm topologies where 31? 31 is the usual projective tensor product [2] and -k is the continuous linear map 31?31->31 defined by ir(a?b) =ab. The net {m 31) ** with aM = Ma and ?r** (M) a = a for all a ? 31. In the algebraic cohomology of algebras the existence of an element m of A A with ma = am and ir(m) the identity of A is equivalent to the statement that H1(A, X) =0 for all 31 modules X almost never holds?in fact, in the commutative case for all A bimodules X. Among Banach algebras the statement jEP^S^X) =0 (see [3; Theorem 1] and [5; Proposition 8.1]) we can always find a Banach 31 module ? with S^1(3I,36)=t^O unless 31 zz?n. The existence of an approxi? mate diagonal is not unusual and is equivalent to the statement !M* (31,36*) = 0 for all Banach 31 modules X; thatis 31 is an emenable Banach algebra. The element M plays the same role in the theory of amenable tlgebras that the invariant mean does for amenable groups. The definitions used from [5] and the theorem connecting amenability with approximate diagonals are given in ? 1. In ? 2 we show that if 31 has a virtual diagonal with Ma? 31? St for all a in 3T then 913 (31, 3E) ? .0 for all Banach 31 modules 3?. Algebras satisfying this condition are grdup algebras of compact topological groups and the algebra c0 of convergent sequences of complex numbers. Although we do not prove it the result also applies to any annihilator B* algebra with only finite dimensional minimal ideals. In ? 3 we show that if 31 is a semi simple commutative amenable Banach algebra then there is a Banach 31 module X with 3/2(3I,3E) ^0, unless 31 is finite

0. Introduction. In [4], [5], [6] the structures A1 0 ) A2, where A1 and A2 are Banach algebras, are discussed. Actually, a proper parallel to the algebraic situation is: three commutative Banach algebras A, B, C, where A and B are C-bimodules (in the sense described below), and some Banach-algebraic version of A 03cB. In the first part of the following, we shall give a general discussion of A ?cB, a natural Banach-algebraic version of the (algebraic) tensor product of A and B over C. Thereafter, we shall discuss a special case in which A, B, C are group algebras of locally compact abelian groups. Finally we shall handle the even more special problem in which A and B are group algebras of locally compact abelian groups and C is a group algebra of a compact abelian group. In the last two parts, particularly the last, a connection will be established between the theory of tensor products and the theory of group extensions. In this connection, the author thanks L. Auslander for indicating the point in question. The author is also indebted to Dr. B. Natzitz for pointing out errors and the need for clarifying several items of an earlier draft of this paper.

Many Banach algebrasAhave the property that, although there are discontinuous homomorphisms fromAinto other Banach algebras, every homomorphism fromAinto another Banach algebra is automatically continuous on a dense subspace—preferably, a subalgebra—ofA. Examples of such algebras areC*-algebras and the group algebrasL1(G), whereGis a locally compact, abelian group. In this paper, we prove analogous results for, whereEis a Banach space, and. An important rôle is played by the second Hochschild cohomology group ofand, respectively, with coefficients in the one-dimensional annihilator module. It vanishes in the first case and has linear dimension one in the second one.

Recent research on Dunford-Pettis operators associated with the group algebra L 1 (G) and the Fourier algebra A(G) of a locally compact group has motivated the study of the structure of the Dunford-Pettis space for a Banach module ϵ over a Banach algebra . In this paper, we study conditions under which (ϵ) coincides with the entire Banach right -module ϵ, and investigate its connections with some classical geometric properties. We analyze the structure of Dunford-Pettis elements for various classical Banach spaces and study their behavior under continuous homomorphisms and quotient maps. Moreover, we explore the geometric properties of certain ideals in commutative Banach algebras.

Throughout this paper we deal only with complex and semi-simple algebras. Let B be such an algebra. We denote the socle of B as SB. B is a modular annihilator algebra if B/SB is a radical algebra, i.e. if every element of B is quasi-regular modulo the socle of B; see (1) or (12). Now assume that B is a modular annihilator algebra and a Banach algebra. Then any semi-simple closed subalgebra of B is a modular annihilator algebra by ((4), Cor. to Theorem 4·2,). It is not true, however, that any semi-simple subalgebra A of B is a modular annihilator algebra, even when A is a Banach algebra in some norm. We give a simple example to illustrate this. Let A be the algebra of all complex functions f, continuous on the closed unit disk D in the complex plane, analytic in the interior of D, and such that f(0) = 0. A is a Banach algebra in the usual sup norm over D. Now consider the norm on A defined byLet B be the completion of A in this norm. A has an involution * defined by and also ‖ff*‖ = ‖f‖2 for all f ∈ A. Therefore B is a B*-algebra. It is not difficult to verify that the only non-zero multiplicative linear functionals on A which are continuous with respect to the norm ‖·‖, are the point evaluations at 1/n, n = 1, 2 …. It follows that every non-zero multiplicative linear functional on B is an extension of one of these point evaluations to B. Thus B can be identified with the algebra of all complex sequences which converge to zero.

It is an open problem whether an infinite-dimensional amenable Banach algebra exists whose underlying Banach space is reflexive. We give sufficient conditions for a reflexive, amenable Banach algebra to be finite-dimensional (and thus a finite direct sum of full matrix algebras). If $$ {\frak A} $$ is a reflexive, amenable Banach algebra such that for each maximal left ideal L of $$ {\frak A} $$ (i) the quotient $$ {\frak A}/L $$ has the approximation property and (ii) the canonical map from $$ {\frak A} \check{\otimes} L^\perp $ to $({\frak A} / L) \check{\otimes} L^\perp $$ is open, then $$ {\frak A} $$ is finite-dimensional. As an application, we show that, if $${\frak A}$$ is an amenable Banach algebra whose underlying Banach space is an Lp-space with $$ p\in (1,\infty) $$ such that for each maximal left ideal L the quotient $$ {\frak A}/L $$ has the approximation property, then $$ {\frak A} $$ is finite-dimensional.

Let A be a Banach algebra and I be a closed ideal of A. We say that A is amenable relative to I, if A/I is an amenable Banach algebra. We study the relative amenability of Banach algebras and investigate the relative amenability of triangular Banach algebras and Banach algebras associated to locally compact groups. We generalize some of the previous known results by applying the concept of relative amenability of Banach algebras, especially, we present a generalization of Johnson?s theorem in the concept of relative amenability.

For a Banach algebra 𝒜 and a character ϕ on 𝒜, we introduce and study the notion of essential ϕ-amenability of 𝒜. We give some examples to show that the class of essentially ϕ-amenable Banach algebras is larger than that of ϕ-amenable Banach algebras introduced by Kaniuth et al. [‘On ϕ-amenability of Banach algebras’, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc.144 (2008), 85–96]. Finally, we characterize the essential ϕ-amenability of various Banach algebras related to locally compact groups.

Let $G$ be a compact Hausdorff topological group acting on a compact Hausdorff topological space $X$. Within the $C^{*}$-algebra $C(X)$ of all continuous complex-valued functions on $X$, there is the Peter-Weyl algebra $\mathcal{P}_G(X)$ which is the (purely algebraic) direct sum of the isotypical components for the action of $G$ on $C(X)$. We prove that the action of $G$ on $X$ is free if and only if the canonical map $\mathcal{P}_G(X)\otimes_{C(X/G)}\mathcal{P}_G(X)\to \mathcal{P}_G(X)\otimes\mathcal{O}(G)$ is bijective. Here both tensor products are purely algebraic, and $\mathcal{O}(G)$ denotes the Hopf algebra of "polynomial" functions on $G$.

Orthogonal ℓ1-sets and extreme non-Arens regularity of preduals of von Neumann algebras

The notion of Reiter's Segal algebra in commutative group algebras is generalized to a notion of Segal algebra in more general classes of commutative Banach algebras. Then we introduce a family of Segal algebras in commutative Banach algebras under considerations and study some properties of them.

Let M x (resp. Vx) denote the irreducible module (resp. the Weyl module) with highest weight Z of a connected reductive algebraic group G over k, with k an algebraically closed field of characteristic p >0 . In [3] we proved that a necessary condition for M~ to be a composition factor of V X is that 2 is strongly linked to )6 We proved more generally that the same is true for all cohomology groups of the line bundles on G/B, B a Borel subgroup, induced by )~ and its conjugates under the Weyl group W. Even though Very little is known about the higher cohomology groups of line bundles on G/B (in particular it is not known exactly when they are indecomposable as G-modules) the existence of certain canonical maps between them enables us to deduce some properties of their composition factors and of the structure of Weyl modules. In this paper we shall explore the method from [3] somewhat further. First we obtain an estimate on the set of weights in HI(D, i>0, ;g a character o r b (as in [3] we write Hi00 short for Hi(G/B, L00)). We prove that if )~ is dominant then Z is the unique highest weight in H~(W)(w.z) for all w~W, and it occurs with multiplicity 1. Here ~(w) denotes the length of w and so in characteristic zero, Ht('~)(w.z) is the unique non-vanishing cohomology group [7]. Next we prove that when 2 and X are dominant and 2 is maximal among the weights strongly linked to ;g then M~ occurs exactly once as a composition factor of V z. For p-regular weights this result was proved by Jantzen [9, Satz 10] (see also Carter's and Lusztig's results for groups of type A, [5, Theorem 4.1]). The above result on the highest weight in Ht(W)(w.x) gives a canonical homomorphism Ht{W)(w.z)-~H~ In this way we obtain for each reduced expression for w0, the longest element in W, a filtration of H~ (and of V.~). Using these filtrations we are able to prove the conjecture of Carter and Lusztig [5, p. 239] about intertwining homomorphisms between certain Weyl modules in most cases. We conclude the paper with a general formula for the character of the image of intertwining homomorphisms in the direction of a simple root. As illustrations we give details in the 2 simplest non-trivial cases: type A 2 and B2, Z in the bottom p<alcove.

In this paper, we define the notion of sigma-approximate module amenability of Banach algebras and give some properties about this notion. Also for Banach A-bimodule A, and J, the closed ideal of A generated by elements of form ( α · a ) b - a ( b · α ) , ( a , b ∈ A , α ∈ A ) , we considered some corollaries about σ ^ -approximate amenability of A J as a Banach A-bimodule, where σ ^ : A J → A J by σ ^ ( a + J ) = σ ( a ) + J has a dense range.

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