Are unitarizable groups amenable?

Progress in Mathematics

Volumn 248, Issue , 2005, Pages 323-362

  Pisier, Gilles ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Amenable; Herz Schur multiplier; Similarity problem; Uniformly bounded representation; Unitarizable

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028018694     PISSN: 07431643     EISSN: 2296505X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-7643-7447-0_8     Document Type: Chapter

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