Almost convergence and its applications to the Fourier-Stieltjes localization (Q1363729)

The notion of almost convergence for the class of locally compact amenable groups and its applications to the Fourier-Stieltjes localization on FIR groups are considered. The paper is organized as follows. In \S 1 certain specific discontinuity properties of the group of translations in \(\text{CB}(G)\), the Banach space of bounded continuous complex-valued functions, for a locally compact group \(G\) are investigated; namely, we give an example of nonexistence of the Borel extension of a continuous function on the product of locally compact spaces to the product of one of these spaces and the Stone-Čech compactification of the other factor. Thus certain pathological properties of the translation operation in \(\text{CB}(G)\) are established. Their existence explains why it is natural to introduce the condition of uniform continuity in \S 2, where the theorem on the set of values of invariant means on a given bounded measurable function on an amenable locally compact group is described and certain of its corollaries are derived. In \S 3 an analog of the localization principle for Fourier-Stieltjes algebras on FIR-groups is established.