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In this seminar report we present Read’s proof that is not an amenable Banach algebra. Our proof is slightly simpler (our use of expanders instead of Read’s use of random hypergraphs seems to clarify the picture), but the ideas can all be traced back in Read’s original proof.
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G. Pisier: gip@ccr.jussieu.fr
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Pisier, G. (2004). On Read’s Proof that Is Not Amenable. In: Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1850. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44489-3_20
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