Amenability and weak amenability of second conjugate Banach algebras

Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1489-1497

  Ghahramani, F ^a   Loy, R J ^b   Willis, G A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amenability; Locally compact group; Second conjugate space

Indexed keywords

EID: 21344463131     PISSN: 00029939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1090/s0002-9939-96-03177-2     Document Type: Article

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