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Left and right amenability agree by inversion

Statement

Let $G$ be a group. Then $G$ admits a left-invariant mean if and only if it admits a right-invariant mean.

Here a mean $m$ is right invariant when $m (f \cdot g) = m (f)$ for every $g \in G$ , where $(f \cdot g) (x) = f (x g^{- 1})$ .

Facts & Assumptions

Given: A group $G$ .

[L1]

Amenability is defined by existence of a left-invariant mean (Left-invariant means and amenable groups).

Proof

technique · direct

1.1L1givenconstruct

Suppose $m$ is left invariant. For bounded $f$ , define $I f (x) = f (x^{- 1})$ and $m_{r} (f) = m (I f)$ . Then $m_{r}$ is a mean, and for every $g \in G$ one has $I (f \cdot g) = g^{- 1} \cdot I f$ , so left invariance of $m$ gives $m_{r} (f \cdot g) = m_{r} (f)$ . Thus a left-invariant mean produces a right-invariant mean.

2.1step 1.1∎

Replacing $g$ by $g^{- 1}$ in the same computation shows that inversion also carries right-invariant means back to left-invariant means. Hence the two notions are equivalent.

Depends on

Left-invariant means and amenable groups

Used by

Equivalent boundary formulations of the Folner condition Lemma

Dependency tree · two levels

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Sources

Cornelia Drutu and Michael Kapovich, Lectures on Geometric Group Theory (standard reference, not scraped)