Amenable Banach algebra

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A Banach algebra, A, is amenable if all bounded derivations from A into dual Banach A-bimodules are inner (that is of the form for some x in the dual module).

An equivalent characterization is that A is amenable if and only if it has a virtual diagonal.

[edit] Examples

• If A is a group algebra L¹(G) for some topological group G then A is amenable if and only if G is amenable.
• If A is a C*-algebra then A is amenable if and only if it is nuclear.
• If A is a uniform algebra on a compact Hausdorff space then A is amenable if and only if it is trivial (i.e. the algebra C(X) of all continuous complex functions on X
• If A is amenable and there is a continuous algebra homomorphism θ from A to another Banach algebra, then the closure of θ(A) is amenable.

[edit] References

• F.F. Bonsall, J. Duncan, "Complete normed algebras"

• H.G. Dales, "Banach algebras and automatic continuity"

• B.E. Johnson, "Cohomology in Banach algebras", Memoirs of the AMS 127 (1972).