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Timeline for Amenable action intuition

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Aug 28, 2021 at 17:36 comment added R W @Carlo Beenakker Neither - it is just different and serves a different purpose. See the discussion here: mathoverflow.net/questions/317259/…
Aug 28, 2021 at 17:26 comment added Carlo Beenakker @RW thank you for correcting/instructing me; so this definition 1 (amenable action) is inappropriate/mistaken?
Aug 28, 2021 at 16:55 comment added R W You make a mistake here - the amenability in question is not the existence of an invariant mean on the action space. Concerning the terminology - the most appropriate name (and the one used in German mittelbare and French moyennable) would refer to the ability to average rather than to measure (although von Neumann's original term is, indeed, messbare) . The success of the term amenable is due to the absence of an appropriate word in English.
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Aug 28, 2021 at 13:40 history edited Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 28, 2021 at 12:56 comment added Andromeda The question is asking about amenable action and not amenable group.
Aug 28, 2021 at 12:53 history edited Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 28, 2021 at 12:52 comment added Carl-Fredrik Nyberg Brodda I don't think the question is asking about the etymology of the word "amenable".
Aug 28, 2021 at 12:46 history answered Carlo Beenakker CC BY-SA 4.0