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# Derivations from totally ordered semigroup algebras into their duals

Published:1997-06-01
Printed: Jun 1997
• T. D. Blackmore
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## Abstract

For a well-behaved measure $\mu$, on a locally compact totally ordered set $X$, with continuous part $\mu_c$, we make $L^p(X,\mu_c)$ into a commutative Banach bimodule over the totally ordered semigroup algebra $L^p(X,\mu)$, in such a way that the natural surjection from the algebra to the module is a bounded derivation. This gives rise to bounded derivations from $L^p(X,\mu)$ into its dual module and in particular shows that if $\mu_c$ is not identically zero then $L^p(X,\mu)$ is not weakly amenable. We show that all bounded derivations from $L^1(X,\mu)$ into its dual module arise in this way and also describe all bounded derivations from $L^p(X,\mu)$ into its dual for $1  MSC Classifications: 43A20 -$L^1\$-algebras on groups, semigroups, etc. 46M20 - Methods of algebraic topology (cohomology, sheaf and bundle theory, etc.) [See also 14F05, 18Fxx, 19Kxx, 32Cxx, 32Lxx, 46L80, 46M15, 46M18, 55Rxx]