ESSENTIAL AMENABILITY OF DUAL BANACH ALGEBRAS

We show that an essentially amenable Banach algebra need not have an approximate identity. This answers a question posed by Ghahramani and Loy [‘Generalized notions of amenability’, J. Funct. Anal. 208 (2004), 229–260]. Essentially Connes-amenable dual Banach algebras are introduced and studied.

A Generalization of Cyclic Amenability of Banach Algebras

This paper continues the investigation of Esslamzadeh and the first author which was begun in [ESSLAMZADEH, G. H.-SHOJAEE, B.: Approximate weak amenability of Banach algebras, Bull. Belg. Math. Soc. Simon Stevin 18 (2011), 415-429]. It is shown that homomorphic image of an approximately cyclic amenable Banach algebra is again approximately cyclic amenable. Equivalence of approximate cyclic amenability of a Banach algebra A and approximate cyclic amenability of M

ESSENTIAL AMENABILITY OF ABSTRACT SEGAL ALGEBRAS

A number of well-known results of Ghahramani and Loy on the essential amenability of Banach algebras are generalized. It is proved that a symmetric abstract Segal algebra with respect to an amenable Banach algebra is essentially amenable. Applications to locally compact groups are given.

Character amenability of Banach algebras

We introduce the notion of character amenable Banach algebras. We prove that character amenability for either of the group algebra L1(G) or the Fourier algebra A(G) is equivalent to the amenability of the underlying group G. Character amenability of the measure algebra M(G) is shown to be equivalent to G being a discrete amenable group. We also study functorial properties of character amenability. For a commutative character amenable Banach algebra A, we prove all cohomological groups with coefficients in finite-dimensional Banach A-bimodules, vanish. As a corollary we conclude that all finite-dimensional extensions of commutative character amenable Banach algebras split strongly.

Approximate characterizations of projectivity and injectivity for Banach modules

We characterize projective and injective Banach modules in approximate terms, generalizing thereby a characterization of contractible Banach algebras given by F. Ghahramani and R. J. Loy. As a corollary, we show that each uniformly approximately amenable Banach algebra is amenable. Some applications to homological dimensions of Banach modules and algebras are also given.

Approximate complementation and its applications in studying ideals of Banach algebras

We show that a subspace of a Banach space having the approximation property inherits this property if and only if it is approximately complemented in the space. For an amenable Banach algebra a closed left, right or two-sided ideal admits a bounded right, left or two-sided approximate identity if and only if it is bounded approximately complemented in the algebra. If an amenable Banach algebra has a symmetric diagonal, then a closed left (right) ideal $J$ has a right (resp. left) approximate identity $(p_{\alpha})$ such that, for every compact subset $K$ of $J$, the net $(a\cdot p_{\alpha})$ (resp. $(p_{\alpha}\cdot a)$) converges to $a$ uniformly for $a \in K$ if and only if $J$ is approximately complemented in the algebra.

Amenability and semisimplicity for second duals of quotients of the Fourier algebraA(G)

LetF ⊂ Gbe closed andA(F) = A(G)/IF. IfFis a Helson set thenA(F)**is an amenable (semisimple) Banach algebra. Our main result implies the following theorem: LetGbe a locally compact group,F ⊂ Gclosed,a ∈ G. Assume either (a) For some non-discrete closed subgroupH, the interior ofF ∩ aHinaHis non-empty, or (b)R ⊂ G, S ⊂ Ris a symmetric set andaS ⊂ F. ThenA(F)**is a non-amenable non-semisimple Banach algebra. This raises the question: How ‘thin’ canFbe forA(F)**to remain a non-amenable Banach algebra?

Two commutative amenable non-symmetric Banach algebras

We show that a commutative amenable Banach algebra need not be symmetric by constructing suitable examples.

Amenability of Banach algebras

We consider the problem of amenability for a commutative Banach algebra. The question of amenability for a Banach algebra was first studied by B. E. Johnson in 1972, in [5]. The most recent contributions, to our knowledge, are papers by Bade, Curtis and Dales [1], and by Curtis and Loy [3]. In the first, amenability for Lipschitz algebras on a compact metric space K is studied. Using the fact, which they prove, that LipαK is isometrically isomorphic to the second dual of lipαK, for 0 < α < 1, they show that lipαK is not amenable when K is infinite and 0 < α < 1. In the second paper, the authors prove, without using any serious cohomology theory, some results proved earlier by Khelemskii and Scheinberg [8] using cohomology. They also discuss the amenability of Lipschitz algebras, using the result that a weakly complemented closed two-sided ideal in an amenable Banach algebra has a bounded approximate identity. Their result is stronger than that of [1].