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Solution to Farhadi-Ghahramani's multiplier problem

Author(s): Matthias Neufang
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 138 (2010), 553-555.
MSC (2000): Primary 43A20, 43A22
Posted: October 14, 2009
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Abstract: We answer, in the negative, the main question raised by H. Farhadi and F. Ghahramani in their article Involutions on the second duals of group algebras and a multiplier problem, Proc. Edinburgh Math. Soc. (2) 50 (2007), no. 1, 153-161.

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Matthias Neufang
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6, Canada
Email: mneufang@math.carleton.ca

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-09-09778-0
PII: S 0002-9939(09)09778-0
Keywords: Arens products, group algebras, Stone-\v{C}ech compactification, module homomorphisms, topological centres.
Received by editor(s): February 11, 2008
Posted: October 14, 2009
Additional Notes: The author was partially supported by NSERC. This support is gratefully acknowledged.
Communicated by: Marius Junge
Copyright of article: Copyright 2009, American Mathematical Society

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