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On the Semigroup of Probability Measures of a Locally Compact Semigroup

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

James C.S. Wong*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
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Abstract

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We show that a locally compact semigroup S is topological left amenable iff a certain space of left uniformly continuous functions on the convolution semigroup of probability measures M0(S) on S is left amenable or equivalently iff the convolution semigroup M0(S) has the fixed point property for uniformly continuous affine actions on compact convex sets.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1987

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