We consider a general twisted shift-invariant system, $V^{t}(\mathcal {A})$, consisting of twisted translates of countably many generators and study the problem of obtaining a characterization for the system $V^{t}(\mathcal {A})$ to form a frame sequence or a Riesz sequence. We illustrate our theory with some examples. In addition to these results, we study a dual twisted shift-invariant system and also obtain an orthonormal sequence of twisted translates from a given Riesz sequence of twisted translates.

Let H be an ultraspherical hypergroup and let $A(H)$ be the Fourier algebra associated with $H.$ In this paper, we study the dual and the double dual of $A(H).$ We prove among other things that the subspace of all uniformly continuous functionals on $A(H)$ forms a $C^*$-algebra. We also prove that the double dual $A(H)^{\ast \ast }$ is neither commutative nor semisimple with respect to the Arens product, unless the underlying hypergroup H is finite. Finally, we study the unit elements of $A(H)^{\ast \ast }.$

Let $ H $ be a compact subgroup of a locally compact group $ G $ . We first investigate some (operator) (co)homological properties of the Fourier algebra $A(G/H)$ of the homogeneous space $G/H$ such as (operator) approximate biprojectivity and pseudo-contractibility. In particular, we show that $ A(G/H) $ is operator approximately biprojective if and only if $ G/H $ is discrete. We also show that $A(G/H)^{**}$ is boundedly approximately amenable if and only if G is compact and H is open. Finally, we consider the question of existence of weakly compact multipliers on $A(G/H)$ .

The purpose of this note is to construct an example of a discrete non-abelian group G and a subset E of G, not contained in any abelian subgroup, that is a completely bounded $\Lambda (p)$ set for all $p<\infty ,$ but is neither a Leinert set nor a weak Sidon set.

In this short note we first extend the validity of the spectral radius formula, obtained by M. Anoussis and G. Gatzouras, for Fourier–Stieltjes algebras. The second part is devoted to showing that, for the measure algebra on any locally compact non-discrete Abelian group, there are no non-trivial constraints among three quantities: the norm, the spectral radius, and the supremum of the Fourier–Stieltjes transform, even if we restrict our attention to measures with all convolution powers singular with respect to the Haar measure.

Motivated by the definition of a semigroup compactication of a locally compact group and a large collection of examples, we introduce the notion of an (operator) homogeneous left dual Banach algebra (HLDBA) over a (completely contractive) Banach algebra $A$. We prove a Gelfand-type representation theorem showing that every HLDBA over A has a concrete realization as an (operator) homogeneous left Arens product algebra: the dual of a subspace of $A^{\ast }$ with a compatible (matrix) norm and a type of left Arens product $\Box$. Examples include all left Arens product algebras over $A$, but also, when $A$ is the group algebra of a locally compact group, the dual of its Fourier algebra. Beginning with any (completely) contractive (operator) $A$-module action $Q$ on a space $X$, we introduce the (operator) Fourier space $({\mathcal{F}}_{Q}(A^{\ast }),\Vert \cdot \Vert _{Q})$ and prove that $({\mathcal{F}}_{Q}(A^{\ast })^{\ast },\Box )$ is the unique (operator) HLDBA over $A$ for which there is a weak$^{\ast }$-continuous completely isometric representation as completely bounded operators on $X^{\ast }$ extending the dual module representation. Applying our theory to several examples of (completely contractive) Banach algebras $A$ and module operations, we provide new characterizations of familiar HLDBAs over A and we recover, and often extend, some (completely) isometric representation theorems concerning these HLDBAs.

Let $K$ be an ultraspherical hypergroup associated with a locally compact group $G$ and a spherical projector $\pi$ and let $\text{VN}(K)$ denote the dual of the Fourier algebra $A(K)$ corresponding to $K$. In this note, we show that the set of invariant means on $\text{VN}(K)$ is singleton if and only if $K$ is discrete. Here $K$ need not be second countable. We also study invariant means on the dual of the Fourier algebra ${{A}_{0}}(K)$, the closure of $A(K)$ in the cb-multiplier norm. Finally, we consider generalized translations and generalized invariant means.

In this paper we introduce a new way of deforming convolution algebras and Fourier algebras on locally compact groups. We demonstrate that this new deformation allows us to reveal some information about the underlying groups by examining Banach algebra properties of deformed algebras. More precisely, we focus on representability as an operator algebra of deformed convolution algebras on compact connected Lie groups with connection to the real dimension of the underlying group. Similarly, we investigate complete representability as an operator algebra of deformed Fourier algebras on some finitely generated discrete groups with connection to the growth rate of the group.

Associated with two commutative Banach algebras $A$ and $B$ and a character $\theta $ of $B$ is a certain Banach algebra product $A\,{{\times }_{\theta }}\,B$, which is a splitting extension of $B$ by $A$. We investigate two topics for the algebra $A\,{{\times }_{\theta }}\,B$ in relation to the corresponding ones of $A$ and $B$. The first one is the Bochner–Schoenberg–Eberlein property and the algebra of Bochner–Schoenberg–Eberlein functions on the spectrum, whereas the second one concerns the wide range of spectral synthesis problems for $A\,{{\times }_{\theta }}\,B$.

We study locally compact quantum groups $\mathbb{G}$ through the convolution algebras ${{L}_{1}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ and $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\triangleright \right)$. We prove that the reduced quantum group ${{C}^{*}}$ -algebra ${{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ can be recovered from the convolution $\triangleright $ by showing that the right $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$-module $\left\langle K\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ is equal to ${{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$. On the other hand, we show that the left $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$-module $\left\langle T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,K\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ is isomorphic to the reduced crossed product ${{C}_{0}}\left( \widehat{\mathbb{G}} \right){{\,}_{r}}\,\ltimes \,{{C}_{0}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$, and hence is a much larger ${{C}^{*}}$ -subalgebra of $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$.

We establish a natural isomorphism between the completely bounded right multiplier algebras of ${{L}_{1}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$ and $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\,\triangleright \right)$, and settle two invariance problems associated with the representation theorem of Junge–Neufang–Ruan (2009). We characterize regularity and discreteness of the quantum group $\mathbb{G}$ in terms of continuity properties of the convolution $\triangleright $ on $T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. We prove that if $\mathbb{G}$ is semiregular, then the space $\left\langle T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)\,\triangleright \,B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right) \right\rangle $ of right $\mathbb{G}$-continuous operators on ${{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right)$, which was introduced by Bekka (1990) for ${{L}_{\infty }}\left( G \right)$, is a unital ${{C}^{*}}$-subalgebra of $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. In the representation framework formulated by Neufang–Ruan–Spronk (2008) and Junge–Neufang–Ruan, we show that the dual properties of compactness and discreteness can be characterized simultaneously via automatic normality of quantum group bimodule maps on $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$. We also characterize some commutation relations of completely bounded multipliers of $\left( T\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right),\,\triangleright \right)$ over $B\left( {{L}_{2}}\left( \mathbb{G} \right) \right)$.

By exploring the relations among functional equations, harmonic analysis and representation theory, we give a unified and very accessible approach to solve three important functional equations — the d'Alembert equation, the Wilson equation, and the d'Alembert long equation — on compact groups.

For a locally compact group $G$, let $A(G)$ be its Fourier algebra, let ${{M}_{cb}}A(G)$ denote the completely bounded multipliers of $A(G)$, and let ${{A}_{Mcb}}\,(G)$ stand for the closure of $A(G)$ in ${{M}_{cb}}A(G)$. We characterize the norm one idempotents in ${{M}_{cb}}A(G)$: the indicator function of a set $E\,\subset \,G$ is a norm one idempotent in ${{M}_{cb}}A(G)$ if and only if $E$ is a coset of an open subgroup of $G$. As applications, we describe the closed ideals of ${{A}_{Mcb}}\,(G)$ with an approximate identity bounded by 1, and we characterize those $G$ for which ${{A}_{Mcb}}\,(G)$ is 1-amenable in the sense of B. E. Johnson. (We can even slightly relax the norm bounds.)

We show that the multiplier algebra of the Fourier algebra on a locally compact group $G$ can be isometrically represented on a direct sum on non-commutative ${{L}^{p}}$ spaces associated with the right von Neumann algebra of $G$. The resulting image is the idealiser of the image of the Fourier algebra. If these spaces are given their canonical operator space structure, then we get a completely isometric representation of the completely bounded multiplier algebra. We make a careful study of the noncommutative ${{L}^{p}}$ spaces we construct and show that they are completely isometric to those considered recently by Forrest, Lee, and Samei. We improve a result of theirs about module homomorphisms. We suggest a definition of a Figa-Talamanca–Herz algebra built out of these non-commutative ${{L}^{p}}$ spaces, say ${{A}_{p}}(\hat{G})$. It is shown that ${{A}_{2}}(\hat{G})$ is isometric to ${{L}^{1}}(G)$, generalising the abelian situation.

We investigate generalized amenability and biflatness properties of various (operator) Segal algebras in both the group algebra, ${{L}^{1}}\left( G \right)$, and the Fourier algebra, $A\left( G \right)$, of a locally compact group $G$.

We prove that every infinite subset of the dual of a compact, connected group contains an infinite, central, weighted I0 set. This yields a new proof of the fact that the duals of such groups admit infinite central p-Sidon sets for each p > 1. We also establish the existence of infinite, weighted I0 sets in the duals of many compact, abelian hypergroups.

Let $G$ be a locally compact group, and let ${{A}_{\text{cb}}}(G)$ denote the closure of $A(G)$, the Fourier algebra of $G$, in the space of completely bounded multipliers of $A(G)$. If $G$ is a weakly amenable, discrete group such that ${{C}^{*}}(G)$ is residually finite-dimensional, we show that ${{A}_{\text{cb}}}(G)$ is operator amenable. In particular, ${{A}_{\text{cb}}}({{\mathbb{F}}_{2}})$ is operator amenable even though ${{\mathbb{F}}_{2}}$, the free group in two generators, is not an amenable group. Moreover, we show that if $G$ is a discrete group such that ${{A}_{\text{cb}}}(G)$ is operator amenable, a closed ideal of $A(G)$ is weakly completely complemented in $A(G)$ if and only if it has an approximate identity bounded in the $\text{cb}$-multiplier norm.

This paper studies Hausdorff–Young inequalities for certain group extensions, by use of Mackey's theory. We consider the case in which the dual action of the quotient group is free almost everywhere. This result applies in particular to yield a Hausdorff–Young inequality for nonunimodular groups.

The decomposability number of a von Neumann algebra $\mathcal{M}$ (denoted by $\text{dec}\left( \mathcal{M} \right)$) is the greatest cardinality of a family of pairwise orthogonal non-zero projections in $\mathcal{M}$. In this paper, we explore the close connection between $\text{dec}\left( \mathcal{M} \right)$ and the cardinal level of the Mazur property for the predual ${{\mathcal{M}}_{*}}$ of $\mathcal{M}$, the study of which was initiated by the second author. Here, our main focus is on those von Neumann algebras whose preduals constitute such important Banach algebras on a locally compact group $G$ as the group algebra ${{L}_{1}}(G)$, the Fourier algebra $A(G)$, the measure algebra $M(G)$, the algebra $LUC{{(G)}^{*}}$, etc. We show that for any of these von Neumann algebras, say $\mathcal{M}$, the cardinal number dec$(\mathcal{M})$ and a certain cardinal level of the Mazur property of ${{\mathcal{M}}_{*}}$ are completely encoded in the underlying group structure. In fact, they can be expressed precisely by two dual cardinal invariants of $G$: the compact covering number $\kappa (G)$ of $G$ and the least cardinality $\mathcal{X}(G)$ of an open basis at the identity of $G$. We also present an application of the Mazur property of higher level to the topological centre problem for the Banach algebra $A{{(G)}^{**}}$.

Let $G$ be a locally compact group, $\mathrm{L}^p (G)$ be the usual $\mathrm{L}^p$-space for $1 \leq p \leq \infty$, and $\mathrm{A} (G)$ be the Fourier algebra of $G$. Our goal is to study, in a new abstract context, the completely bounded multipliers of $\mathrm{A} (G)$, which we denote $\mathrm{M_{cb}A} (G)$. We show that $\mathrm{M_{cb}A} (G)$ can be characterised as the ‘invariant part’ of the space of (completely) bounded normal $\mathrm{L}^\infty (G)$-bimodule maps on $\mathcal{B}(\mathrm{L}^2 (G))$, the space of bounded operators on $\mathrm{L}^2 (G)$. In doing this we develop a function-theoretic description of the normal $\mathrm{L}^\infty (X, \mu)$-bimodule maps on $\mathcal{B} (\mathrm{L}^2 (X, \mu))$, which we denote by $\mathrm{V}^\infty (X, \mu)$, and name the {\it measurable Schur multipliers} of $(X, \mu)$. Our approach leads to many new results, some of which generalise results hitherto known only for certain classes of groups. Those results which we develop here are a uniform approach to obtaining the functorial properties of $\mathrm{M_{cb} A} (G)$, and a concrete description of a standard predual of $\mathrm{M_{cb} A} (G)$.

Let F ⊂ G be closed and A(F) = A(G)/IF. If F is a Helson set then A(F)** is an amenable (semisimple) Banach algebra. Our main result implies the following theorem: Let G be a locally compact group, F ⊂ G closed, a ∈ G. Assume either (a) For some non-discrete closed subgroup H, the interior of F ∩ aH in aH is non-empty, or (b) R ⊂ G, S ⊂ R is a symmetric set and aS ⊂ F. Then A(F)** is a non-amenable non-semisimple Banach algebra. This raises the question: How ‘thin’ can F be for A(F)** to remain a non-amenable Banach algebra?