Amenability constants for semilattice algebras

Semigroup Forum

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 279-297

  Ghandehari, Mahya ^a   Hatami, Hamed ^b   Spronk, Nico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amenable contractible Banach algebra; Graded Banach algebra; Semilattice

Indexed keywords

EID: 76349101670     PISSN: 00371912     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00233-008-9115-z     Document Type: Article

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