Amenability of semigroups and the Ore condition for semigroup rings

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Abstract: Let M be a cancellative monoid. It is known~cite{Ta54} that if M is left amenable then the monoid ring K[M] satisfies Ore condition, that is, there exist nontrivial common right multiples for the elements of this ring. In~cite{Don10} Donnelly shows that a partial converse to this statement is true. Namely, if the monoid mathbbZ+[M] of all elements of mathbbZ[M] with positive coefficients has nonzero common right multiples, then M is left amenable. He asks whether the converse is true for this particular statement. We show that the converse is false even for the case of groups. If M is a free metabelian group, then M is amenable but the Ore condition fails for mathbbZ+[M]. Besides, we study the case of the monoid M of positive elements of R.,Thompson's group F. The amenability problem for it is a famous open question. It is equivalent to left amenability of the monoid M. We show that for this case the monoid mathbbZ+[M] does not satisfy Ore condition. That is, even if F is amenable, this cannot be shown using the above sufficient condition.












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