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Record Nr.

UNISA996466635103316

Autore

Runde Volker

Titolo

Lectures on Amenability [[electronic resource] /] / by Volker Runde

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2002

ISBN

3-540-45560-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2002.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 302 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, , 0075-8434 ; ; 1774

Disciplina

510 s

Soggetti

Algebra

Functional analysis

Harmonic analysis

Category theory (Mathematics)

Homological algebra

Global analysis (Mathematics)

Manifolds (Mathematics)

Functional Analysis

Abstract Harmonic Analysis

Category Theory, Homological Algebra

Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Paradoxical decompositions -- Amenable, locally comact groups -- Amenable Banach algebras -- Exemples of amenable Banach algebras -- Amenability-like properties -- Banach homology -- C* and W*-algebras -- Operator amenability -- Geometry of spaces of homomorphisms -- Open problems: Abstract harmonic analysis -- Tensor products -- Banach space properties -- Operator spaces -- List of symbols -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

The notion of amenability has its origins in the beginnings of modern measure theory: Does a finitely additive set function exist which is invariant under a certain group action? Since the 1940s, amenability has become an important concept in abstract harmonic analysis (or rather, more generally, in the theory of semitopological semigroups). In



1972, B.E. Johnson showed that the amenability of a locally compact group G can be characterized in terms of the Hochschild cohomology of its group algebra L^1(G): this initiated the theory of amenable Banach algebras. Since then, amenability has penetrated other branches of mathematics, such as von Neumann algebras, operator spaces, and even differential geometry. Lectures on Amenability introduces second year graduate students to this fascinating area of modern mathematics and leads them to a level from where they can go on to read original papers on the subject. Numerous exercises are interspersed in the text.