TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dales,H.G.
AU  - Lau,Anthony To-Ming
AU  - Strauss,Dona
TI  - Banach algebras on semigroups and on their compactifications
T2  - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 
SN  - 9781470405809 (online)
AV  - QA403 .D35 2010
U1  - 512/.27 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Providence, R.I.
PB  - American Mathematical Society
KW  - Banach algebras
KW  - Measure algebras
KW  - Semigroups
KW  - Functional analysis
N1  - "Volume 205, number 966 (end of volume)."; "May 2010."; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Banach algebras and their second duals; Chapter 3. Semigroups; Chapter 4. Semigroup algebras; Chapter 5. Stone-Cech compactifications; Chapter 6. The semigroup $(\beta S, \square )$; Chapter 7. Second duals of semigroup algebras; Chapter 8. Related spaces and compactifications; Chapter 9. Amenability for semigroups; Chapter 10. Amenability of semigroup algebras; Chapter 11. Amenability and weak amenability for certain Banach algebras; Chapter 12. Topological centres; Chapter 13. Open problems; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012
UR  - http://www.ams.org/memo/0966
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0065-9266-10-00595-8
ER  -