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Amenable semigroups and nonexpansive dynamical systems

Functional Analysis 2019-09-24 v1 Dynamical Systems

Abstract

We characterize amenability of subspaces of C(S)C(S), where SS is a semitopological semigroup, in terms of fixed point properties of nonexpansive actions. In particular, we give a complete characterization of a semitopological semigroup with a left invariant mean on WAP(S) that answers a question of A.T.-M. Lau and Y. Zhang in the affirmative. We also propose a new approach to Lau's problem concerning a counterpart of Day-Mitchell's characterization of amenable semigroups and show some partial results, in the case of weak^{\ast } compact convex sets with the Radon-Nikod\'{y}m property, and in the duals of MM-embedded Banach spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1909.09723,
  title  = {Amenable semigroups and nonexpansive dynamical systems},
  author = {Andrzej Wiśnicki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.09723},
  year   = {2019}
}
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