Weak amenability of Lie groups made discrete (Q1799053)

The purpose of this paper is to characterize the connected Lie groups with the property that all countable subgroups are weakly amenable in the sense introduced in [\textit{M. Cowling} and \textit{U. Haagerup}, Invent. Math. 96, 507--549 (1989; Zbl 0681.43012)] in the settings of locally compact groups. The author shows how the classification of Lie groups that are weakly amenable can be extended from simple Lie groups to semisimple Lie groups. He also proves that if \(G\) is a connected Lie group, and \(G_d\) denotes the same group endowed with the discrete topology, then \(G\) is locally isomorphic to \(R\times\mathrm{SO}( 3) ^{a}\times\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb R)^b\times\mathrm{SL}(2,\mathbb C) ^b\) (where \(R\) is a solvable connected Lie group and \(a\), \(b\), \(c\) are integers) iff \(G_d\) is weakly amenable iff every countable subgroup of \(G\) is weakly amenable. Finally, the author shows that if \(G\) is a connected Lie group, and if \(G_d\) is weakly amenable, then \(G\) is weakly amenable and in this case both weak amenability constants (of \(G\) and \(G_d\)) are equal to \(1\).