Abstract It is shown that each locally compact second countable non-(T) group G admits non-strongly ergodic weakly mixing IDPFT Poisson actions of any possible Krieger type. These are amenable if and only amenable. If has the Haagerup property, then (and then) these can be chosen 0-type. amenable, Bernoulli arbitrary

We prove that hyperbolic groups are weakly amenable. This partially extends the result of Cowling and Haagerup showing that lattices in simple Lie groups of real rank one are weakly amenable. We take a combinatorial approach in the spirit of Haagerup and prove that for the word length metric d on a hyperbolic group, the Schur multipliers associated with r have uniformly bounded norms for 0 < r ...

In [6] J.F. Feinstein constructed a compact plane set X such that R(X) has no non-zero, bounded point derivations but is not weakly amenable. In the same paper he gave an example of a separable uniform algebra A such that every point in the character space of A is a peak point but A is not weakly amenable. We show that it is possible to modify the construction in order to produce examples which...

We give a counterexample to a conjecture of S.E. Morris by showing that there is a compact plane set X such that R(X) has no non-zero, bounded point derivations but such that R(X) is not weakly amenable. We also give an example of a separable uniform algebra A such that every maximal ideal of A has a bounded approximate identity but such that A is not weakly amenable.

We give a simple and unified proof showing that the unrestricted wreath product of weakly sofic, linear or hyperlinear group by an amenable is hyperlinear, respectively. By means Kaloujnine-Krasner theorem, this implies extensions with quotients preserve four aforementioned metric approximation properties. also discuss case co-amenable groups.

Let G be a locally compact abelian group, and let p 2 1; 1). We show that the Segal algebra S p (G) is always weakly amenable, but that it is amenable only if G is discrete.

We give an example of a non-compact, locally compact group G such that its Fourier–Stieltjes algebra B(G) is operator amenable. Furthermore, we characterize those G for which A * (G)—the spine of B(G) as introduced by M. Ilie and the second named author—is operator amenable and show that A * (G) is operator weakly amenable for each G.

We give an example of a non-compact, locally compact group G such that its Fourier–Stieltjes algebra B(G) is operator amenable. Furthermore, we characterize those G for which A * (G)—the spine of B(G) as introduced by M. Ilie and the second named author—is operator amenable and show that A * (G) is operator weakly amenable for each G.

We give an example of a non-compact, locally compact group G such that its Fourier–Stieltjes algebra B(G) is operator amenable. Furthermore, we characterize those G for which A * (G)—the spine of B(G) as introduced by M. Ilie and the second named author is operator amenable and show that A * (G) is operator weakly amenable for each G.