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Is the group ring of an amenable group, viewed as multiplicative monoid, amenable?

Motivated by this question, it seems natural to ask the following: Question 1: Is there a [finitely generated discrete] torsion-free virtually Abelian (but not Abelian) group $G$ so that the ...
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Is there a notion of 'amenable ring'

Amenable groups are everywhere these days, as examples of all kinds of lovely phenomena. And there are various ways of defining notions of 'amenable monoid' or possibly 'amenable semigroup'. But for ...
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Contractible Banach algebras

A Banach algebra $A$ is contractible if $H^1(A, X)=0$ for all Banach $A$-bimodules $X$. Now to my question Let $A$ be Banach algebra and $I$ be closed ideal of $A$. If $I$ and $A/I$ are both ...
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