Locally compact groups which are amenable as discrete groups

Chou, Ching

doi:10.1090/S0002-9939-1979-0534389-9

Locally compact groups which are amenable as discrete groups
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Abstract:

In the courses of their independent studies of the existence of invariant means which are not topologically invariant, E. Granirer and W. Rudin have considered several properties of a locally compact group G which are satisfied if G is amenable as a discrete group. By applying a result of J. Rosenblatt (together with ideas of Granirer and Rudin) we show some of these properties on G imply that G is amenable as a discrete group.

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