## Advances in Operator Theory

### On a class of Banach algebras associated to harmonic analysis on locally compact groups and semigroups

#### Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present some old and recent results for the class of $F$-algebras which include most classes of Banach algebras that are important in abstract harmonic analysis. We also introduce a subclass of the class of $F$-algebras, called normal $F$-algebras, that captures better the measure algebras and the (reduced) Fourier-Stieltjes algebras, and use this to give new characterisations the reduced Fourier-Stieltjes algebras of discrete groups.

#### Article information

Source
Adv. Oper. Theory, Volume 3, Number 1 (2018), 231-246.

Dates
Received: 11 February 2017
Accepted: 29 June 2017
First available in Project Euclid: 5 December 2017

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aot/1512497960

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.22034/aot.1702-1115

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3730347

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1376.43004

#### Citation

Lau, Anthony To-Ming; Pham, Hung Le. On a class of Banach algebras associated to harmonic analysis on locally compact groups and semigroups. Adv. Oper. Theory 3 (2018), no. 1, 231--246. doi:10.22034/aot.1702-1115. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aot/1512497960

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