Characterisations of Pseudo-Amenability
My first in-person talk at the University of Waterloo as a PhD student. It had taken some time to organise, as various covid restrictions delayed my arrival to Waterloo. The talk focused on the work in my Master’s thesis, providing a brief overview.
Abstract
Amenable groups are an important and well-studied class of locally compact groups. A result due to Pham gives a characterisation of these groups, and a weakening of this condition gives rise to these so called pseudo-amenable groups. A natural question to ask is if this new condition is equivalent to amenability, or if it is strictly weaker. This talk will give a characterisation of these pseudo-amenable groups, which is important in proving properties of these groups which mimic well-known results of amenable groups.