Motivated by an Arens regularity problem, we introduce the concepts of matrix Banach space and matrix Banach algebra. The notion of matrix normed space in the sense of Ruan is a special case of our matrix normed system. A matrix Banach algebra is a matrix Banach space with a completely contractive multiplication. We study the structure of matrix Banach spaces and matrix Banach algebras. Then we...

Let (G,S) be a Coxeter group. We construct a continuation, to the open unit disc, of the unitary representations associated to the positive definite functions g 7→ rl(g). (Here 0 < r < 1, and l denotes the length function with respect to the generating set S.) The constructed representations are uniformly bounded and we prove that this implies the weak amenability of the group G. Résumé Soit (G...

We prove that hyperbolic groups are weakly amenable. This partially extends the result of Cowling and Haagerup showing that lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank one are weakly amenable. We take a combinatorial approach in the spirit of Haagerup and prove that for the word length metric d on a hyperbolic group, the Schur multipliers associated with r have uniformly bounded norms for 0 < r ...

In this paper we introduce the notion of $varphi$-commutativity for a Banach algebra $A$, where $varphi$ is a continuous homomorphism on $A$ and study the concept of $varphi$-weak amenability for $varphi$-commutative Banach algebras. We give an example to show that the class of $varphi$-weakly amenable Banach algebras is larger than that of weakly amenable commutative Banach algebras. We charac...

in this paper we introduce two symmetric variants of amenability, symmetric module amenability and symmetric connes amenability. we determine symmetric module amenability and symmetric connes amenability of some concrete banach algebras. indeed, it is shown that $ell^1(s)$ is  a symmetric $ell^1(e)$-module amenable if and only if $s$ is amenable, where $s$ is an inverse semigroup with subsemigr...

let $a$ be a banach algebra and $x$ be a banach $a$-bimodule. then ${mathcal{s}}=a oplus x$, the $l^1$-direct sum of $a$ and $x$ becomes a module extension banach algebra when equipped with the algebra product $(a,x).(a',x')=(aa',ax'+xa').$ in this paper, we investigate biflatness and biprojectivity for these banach algebras. we also discuss on automatic continuity of derivations on ${mathcal{s...

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...