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A short proof that ℬ(L1) is not amenable
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 November 2020
Abstract
Non-amenability of ${\mathcal {B}}(E)$ has been surprisingly difficult to prove for the classical Banach spaces, but is now known for E = ℓp and E = Lp for all 1 ⩽ p < ∞. However, the arguments are rather indirect: the proof for L1 goes via non-amenability of $\ell ^\infty ({\mathcal {K}}(\ell _1))$ and a transference principle developed by Daws and Runde (Studia Math., 2010).
In this note, we provide a short proof that ${\mathcal {B}}(L_1)$ and some of its subalgebras are non-amenable, which completely bypasses all of this machinery. Our approach is based on classical properties of the ideal of representable operators on L1, and shows that ${\mathcal {B}}(L_1)$ is not even approximately amenable.
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- Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 151 , Issue 6 , December 2021 , pp. 1758 - 1767
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- Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Society of Edinburgh