Algebras associated with invariant means on the subnormal subgroups of an amenable group

DOI10.1093/QMATH/HAAB039MaRDI QIDQ5083117zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jared T. White

Publication date 21 June 2022

Published in The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09069

zbMATH Keywords

amenable groupsbranch groupsinvariant differencesinvariant meansradical elements

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure of general topological groups (22A05) Means on groups, semigroups, etc.; amenable groups (43A07) Measure algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. (43A10)

Abstract: Let $G$ be an amenable group. We define and study an algebra $mathcal{A}_{sn}(G)$, which is related to invariant means on the subnormal subgroups of $G$. For a just infinite amenable group $G$, we show that $mathcal{A}_{sn}(G)$ is nilpotent if and only if $G$ is not a branch group, and in the case that it is nilpotent we determine the index of nilpotence. We next study $operatornameradel{l}^1(G{)}^{\ast \ast }$ for an amenable branch group $G$, and show that it always contains nilpotent left ideals of arbitrarily large index, as well as non-nilpotent elements. This provides infinitely many finitely-generated counterexamples to a question of Dales and Lau, first resolved by the author in a previous article, which asks whether we always have $(operatornameradel{l}^1(G{)}^{\ast \ast }{)}^{Box2}=0$. We further study this question by showing that $(operatornameradel{l}^1(G{)}^{\ast \ast }{)}^{Box2}=0$ imposes certain structural constraints on the group $G$.

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