On pseudo-amenability of Beurling algebras
Kobra Oustad, Amin Mahmoodi

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This paper characterizes amenability and pseudo-amenability of Beurling algebras on specific semigroups and groups, providing equivalence conditions and extending the discussion to locally compact groups.
Contribution
It offers new characterizations and conditions for amenability and pseudo-amenability of Beurling algebras on semigroups and groups, including equivalence criteria.
Findings
Characterization of amenability and pseudo-amenability for specific semigroups.
Equivalence conditions for amenability of Beurling algebras.
Discussion of pseudo-amenability for locally compact groups.
Abstract
Amenability and pseudo-amenability of is characterized, where is a left (right) zero semigroup or it is a rectangular band semigroup. The equivalence conditions to amenability of are provided, where is a band semigroup. For a locally compact group , pseudo-amenability of is also discussed.
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On pseudo-amenability of Beurling algebras
Kobra Oustad, Amin Mahmoodi
Department of Mathematics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Mathematics, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract.
Amenability and pseudo-amenability of is characterized, where is a left (right) zero semigroup or it is a rectangular band semigroup. The equivalence conditions to amenability of are provided, where is a band semigroup. For a locally compact group , pseudo-amenability of is also discussed.
Key words and phrases:
amenability, pseudo-amenability, Beurling algebra.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary: 22D15, 43A10; Secondary: 43A20, 46H25
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
For a Banach algebra the projective tensor product is a Banach -bimodule in a natural manner and the multiplication map defined by for is a Banach -bimodule homomorphism.
Amenability for Banach algebras introduced by B. E. Johnson [9]. Let be a Banach algebra and be a Banach -bimodule. A continuous linear operator is a derivation if it satisfies for all . Given , the inner derivation is defined by . A Banach algebra is amenable if for every Banach -bimodule , every derivation from into , the dual of , is inner.
An approximate diagonal for a Banach algebra is a net in such that and , for each . The concept of pseudo-amenability introduced by F. Ghahramani and Y. Zhang in [5]. A Banach algebra is pseudo-amenable if it has an approximate diagonal. It is well-known that amenability of is equivalent to the existence of a bounded approximate diagonal.
The notions of biprojectivity and biflatness of Banach algebras introduced by Helemski in [7]. A Banach algebra is biprojective if there is a bounded -bimodule homomorphism such that , where is the identity map on . We say that is biflat if there is a bounded -bimodule homomorphism such that , where is the natural embedding of into its second dual.
Let be a semigroup. A continuous function is a weight on if , for all . Then it is standard that
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is a Banach algebra with the convolution product . These algebras are called Beurling algebras.
In this note, we study the earlier mentioned properties of Banach algebras for Beurling algebras. Firstly in section 2, we characterize amenability and pseudo-amenability of , for some certain class of semigroups. Let be a left or right zero semigroup. We prove that pseudo-amenability of is equivalent to it’s amenability and these equivalent conditions imply that is singleton. We show that the same result holds for , whenever is a rectangular band semigroup and is separable. Further, we investigate biprojectivity of whenever is either left (right) zero semigroup or a rectangular band semigroup. For a band semigroup , we show that amenability of is equivalent to that of and these are equivalent to being a finite semilattice.
Finally in section 3, we investigate pseudo-amenability of where is a locally compact group and is a weight on . We prove that pseudo-amenability of implies amenability of , and under a certain condition it implies diagonally boundedness of . Next, if is pseudo-amenable we may obtain a character on for which .
2. Amenability and pseudo-amenability of
A semigroup is a *left zero semigroup * if , and it is a *right zero semigroup * if for each . Then for , it is obvious that if is a right zero semigroup, and if is a left zero semigroup, where is the augmentation character on .
We extend somewhat the obtained results for in [2,3] to the weighted case .
Proposition 2.1**.**
Suppose that is a right (left) zero semigroup and be a weight on . Then is biprojective.
Proof. We only give the proof in the case is a right zero semigroup. Define by , where is an arbitrary element . Then for each we have
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and similarly Further, is the identity map on , as required. ∎
Remark 2.2**.**
It is known that every biprojective Banach algebra is biflat. Hence Proposition 2.1 shows that for every right or left zero semigroup , is biflat.
Given two semigroups and , we say that a weight on is separable if there exist two weights and on and , respectively such that . It is easy to verify that .
Let be a semigroup and let . We say that is a band semigroup if . A band semigroup satisfying , for each is called a rectangular band semigroup. For a rectangular band semigroup , it is known that , where and are left and right zero semigroups, respectively [8, Theorem 1.1.3].
Proposition 2.3**.**
Let be a rectangular band semigroup and be a separable weight on . Then is biprojective, and so it is biflat.
Proof. In view of earlier argument, it follows From Proposition 2.1, and then from [10, Proposition 2.4].
Theorem 2.4**.**
Let be a rectangular band semigroup and be a weight on . Then is amenable if and only if singleton.
Proof. From [11, Theorem 3.6], is amenable. Then it is immediate by [2, Theorem 3.3]. ∎
For a semigroup , we denote by the semigroup whose underlying space is but whose multiplication is the multiplication in reversed.
Proposition 2.5**.**
Let be a right (left) zero semigroup and be a weight on . Then is amenable if and only if is singleton.
Proof. Suppose that is a left zero semigroup, and that is amenable. Then is a right zero semigroup. It is readily seen that is a rectangular band semigroup, and is amenable. Hence is amenable. Now, by Theorem 2.4, is singleton. ∎
Let be Banach algebra, be a semilattice (i.e., is a commutative band semigroup) and be a collection of closed subalgebras of . Then is -graded of ’s over the semilattice , denoted by , if it is -directsum of ’s as Banach space such that , for each .
Suppose that is the unitization of a semigroup . An equivalence relation on is defined by , for all . If is a band semigroup, then by [8, Theorem 4.4.1], is a semilattice of rectangular band semigroups, where and for each , .
Theorem 2.6**.**
Let be a band semigroup and be a weight on . Then the following are equivalent:
is amenable.
is finite and each class is singleton.
is amenable.
is a finite semilattice.
Proof: The implications to are equivalent [2, Theorem 3.5]. We establish and .
If is amenable, then is finite and so is a finite semilattice. Hence , where . Then by [6, Proposition 3.1], each is amenable. Now by Theorem 2.4, is singleton for each , as required.
In this case , and is amenable. ∎
Theorem 2.7**.**
Let be a rectangular band semigroup, and let be a separable weight on . Then is pseudo-amenable if and only if is singleton.
Proof. There is a left zero semigroup and a right zero semigroup , and there are weights and on and , respectively such that and . We have . Hence the map defined by for and , is an epimorphism of Banach algebras, whereas is the augmentation character on . Whence has left and right approximate identity. Therefore is singleton, because it is left zero semigroup. Similarly is singleton, so is . ∎
Corollary 2.8**.**
Let be a right (left) zero semigroup and be a weight on . Then the following are equivalent:
is pseudo-amenable.
is singleton.
is amenable.
Proof. The implication is Proposition 2.5. For , we apply Theorem 2.7 for the rectangular band semigroup with . ∎
The following is a combination of Theorems 2.4 and 2.7. Notice that in Theorem 2.4, we need not to be separable.
Corollary 2.9**.**
Let be a rectangular band semigroup, and let be a separable weight on . Then the following are equivalent:
is pseudo-amenable.
is singleton.
is amenable.
For the left cancellative semigroups we have the following.
Theorem 2.10**.**
Suppose that is a left cancellative semigroup and is a weight on . If is pseudo-amenable, then is a group.
proof: This is a more or less verbatim of the proof of [3, Theorem 3.6 ]. ∎
3. Pseudo-amenability of
Throughout is a locally compact group and is a weight on . The weight is diagonally bounded if . It seems to be a right conjecture that will fail to be pseudo-amenable whenever is not diagonally bounded. Although we are not able to prove (or disprove) the conjecture, the following is a weaker result.
The proofs in this section owe much to those of [4, Section 8].
Theorem 3.1**.**
Suppose that is pseudo-amenable for which there is an approximate diagonal such that uniformly on . Then is diagonally bounded.
Proof. We follow the standard argument in [4, Proposition 8.7]. Choose such that is compact and . Putting , we see that with
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Let be an approximate diagonal for such that uniformly on , and . Then for each
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Consequently
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We define , and For , we define and . Obviously, and both are in , and . For every , it is easy to see that
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where . Hence
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Next, for every , , and , we obtain
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where . Therefore
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Towards a contradiction, we assume that is not diagonally bounded. Then there is a sequence in such that Whence, it follows from that for each and
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Hence
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Putting and together, we may see that
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contradicting . ∎
Theorem 3.2**.**
Suppose that is pseudo-amenable, and that is bounded away from 0. Then is amenable.
Proof. Since is unital, pseudo-amenability and approximate amenability are the same [5, Proposition 3.2]. Now, it is immediate by [4, Proposition 8.1]. ∎
We conclude by the following which is an analogue of [4, Proposition 8.9].
Proposition 3.3**.**
Let be pseudo-amenable. Then there is a continuous positive character on such that .
Proof. Suppose that be an approximate diagonal for . For each and we define
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Then on and we may extend to a bounded linear functional on in the obvious manner. It is readily seen that , , and , for every and .
Putting , . Then , , , and .
Take with , and then , where . One may see that is continuous, and there is such that . Hence
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Therefore there is for which . Set , and for we put
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Finally, for each , we define A similar argument used in [4, Proposition 8.9], shows that is the desired character on . ∎
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