It is shown that the collection of weakly almost periodic functionals on the convolution algebra of a commutative Hopf von Neumann algebra is a C∗-algebra. This implies that the weakly almost periodic functionals on M(G), the measure algebra of a locally compact group G, is a C∗-subalgebra of M(G)∗ = C0(G) ∗∗. The proof builds upon a factorisation result, due to Young and Kaiser, for weakly com...

We introduce the concept of reflexivity for bounded n-linear maps and investigate the reflexivity of Zn(L1(G),X), the space of bounded ncocycles from L1(G)(n) into X, where L1(G) is the group algebra of a locally compact group G and X is a Banach L1(G)-bimodule. We show that Zn(L1(G), X) is reflexive for a large class of groups including groups with polynomial growth, IN-groups, maximally almos...

Let A and A! be dual Koszul algebras. By Positselski a filtered algebra U with grU = A is Koszul dual to a differential graded algebra (A!, d). We relate the module categories of this dual pair by a⊗−Hom adjunction. This descends to give an equivalence of suitable quotient categories and generalizes work of Beilinson, Ginzburg, and Soergel.

 We study the notion of bounded approximate Connes-amenability for‎ ‎dual Banach algebras and characterize this type of algebras in terms‎ ‎of approximate diagonals‎. ‎We show that bounded approximate‎ ‎Connes-amenability of dual Banach algebras forces them to be unital‎. ‎For a separable dual Banach algebra‎, ‎we prove that bounded‎ ‎approximate Connes-amenability implies sequential approximat...

Ideal Connes-amenability of dual Banach algebras was investigated in [17] by A. Minapoor, A. Bodaghi and D. Ebrahimi Bagha. They studied weak∗continuous derivations from dual Banach algebras into their weak∗-closed two- sided ideals. This work considers weak∗-continuous derivations of dual triangular Banach algebras into their weak∗-closed two- sided ideals . We investigate when weak∗continuous...

Let A be a C∗-algebra, and let X be a Banach A-bimodule. B. E. Johnson showed that local derivations from A into X are derivations. We extend this concept of locality to the higher cohomology of a C ∗-algebra and show that, for every n ∈ N, bounded local n-cocycles from A into X are n-cocycles. The study of the local properties of Hochschild cohomology of a Banach algebra was initiated by intro...

Let Γ denote a distance-regular graph with classical parameters (D, b, α, β) and b 6= 1, α = b − 1. The condition on α implies that Γ is formally self-dual. For b = q we use the adjacency matrix and dual adjacency matrix to obtain an action of the q-tetrahedron algebra ⊠q on the standard module of Γ. We describe four algebra homomorphisms into ⊠q from the quantum affine algebra Uq(ŝl2); using t...

intimately connected with duality theory (the notation is that of [1]). In both cases the middle algebra is the closure of L(G) in the dual of the first algebra and also the predual of the third algebra (at least when G is amenable in the second case). Furthermore, the third algebra is closely connected with the multiplier algebra of the first algebra. For abelian groups, compact or discrete, V...