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Amenability and ideals in A(G)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Brian Forrest
Affiliation:
Department of Pure MathematicsUniversity of WaterlooWaterloo Ontario, Canada
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Abstract

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Closed ideals in A(G) with bounded approximate identities are characterized for amenable [SIN]-groups and arbitrary discrete groups. This extends a result of Liu, van Rooij and Wang for abelian groups.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1992

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