Collects the most recent results scattered throughout the literature on the theory of amenable groups, presenting a detailed investigation of the major features

This volume provides readers with a detailed introduction to the amenability of Banach algebras and locally compact groups. By encompassing important foundation

The subject of amenability has its roots in the work of Lebesgue at the turn of the century. In the 1940s, the subject began to shift from finitely additive mea

The notion of amenability has its origins in the beginnings of modern measure theory: Does a finitely additive set function exist which is invariant under a cer

Recent research has repeatedly led to connections between important rigidity questions and bounded cohomology. However, the latter has remained by and large int