Completely almost periodic functionals (Q651391)

Consider a completely contractive Banach algebra \({\mathcal A}\). A functional \(\Phi \in {\mathcal A}^*\) is completely almost periodic if both maps \[ {\mathcal A}\rightarrow {\mathcal A}^*, \quad a\mapsto \begin{cases} a\cdot \Phi, \\ \Phi\cdot a, \end{cases} \] are completely compact. The author proves that, if \((M, \Gamma)\) is a Hopf-von Neumann algebra such that \(M\) is injective, then the completely almost periodic functionals on \(M_*\) form a \({\mathcal C}^*\)-subalgebra of \(M\). This applies, in particular, to \(A(G)\) in the cases where \(G\) is amenable or connected. In this context, \(G\) is a locally compact group and \(A(G)\) is Eymard's Fourier algebra.