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Fair amenability for semigroups

Group Theory 2016-04-27 v4

Abstract

A new flavour of amenability for discrete semigroups is proposed that generalises group amenability and follows from a \Folner-type condition. Some examples are explored, to argue that this new notion better captures some essential ideas of amenability. A semigroup SS is left fairly amenable if, and only if, it supports a mean m(S)m\in\ell^\infty(S)^* satisfying m(f)=m(sf)m(f) = m(s\ast f) whenever sf(S)s\ast f\in\ell^\infty(S), thus justifying the nomenclature "fairly amenable''.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5589,
  title  = {Fair amenability for semigroups},
  author = {Josh Deprez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5589},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

26 pages, 10 figures

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