We formulate two new criteria of amenability of discrete equivalence relations: in terms of asymptotically invariant families of leafwise probability measures and in terms of isoperimetric properties of leafwise graph structures. These criteria lead to a geometric proof of the Connes{Feldman{Weiss theorem on coincidence of amenability and hyperrniteness for equivalence relations. Nous consid er...

We prove that a discrete group G is amenable iff it is strongly unitarizable in the following sense: every unitarizable representation π on G can be unitarized by an invertible chosen in the von Neumann algebra generated by the range of π. Analogously a C *-algebra A is nuclear iff any bounded homomorphism u : A → B(H) is strongly similar to a *-homomorphism in the sense that there is an invert...

we investigate the stability of generalizedderivations on banach algebras with a bounded central approximateidentity. we show that every approximate generalized derivation inthe sense of rassias, is an exact generalized derivation. also thestability problem of generalized derivations on the faithful banachalgebras is investigated.

We present a new approach to the amenability of groupoids (both in the measure theoretical and the topological setups) based on using Markov operators. We introduce the notion of an invariant Markov operator on a groupoid and show that the Liouville property (absence of non-trivial bounded harmonic functions) for such an operator implies amenability of the groupoid. Moreover, the groupoid actio...

We consider when certain Banach sequence algebras A on the set N are approximately amenable. Some general results are obtained, and we resolve the special cases where A = ` p for 1 ≤ p < ∞, showing that these algebras are not approximately amenable. The same result holds for the weighted algebras ` (ω).