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Amenability and Translation Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Alan L. T. Paterson
Alan L. T. Paterson*
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University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland
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In [11] it is shown that the deficiency of a translation experiment with respect to another on a σ-finite, amenable, locally compact group can be calculated in terms of probability measures on the group. This interesting result, brought to the writer's notice by [1], does not seem to be as wellknown in the theory of amenable groups as it should be. The present note presents a simple proof of the result, removing the σ-finiteness condition and repairing a gap in Torgersen's argument. The main novelty is the use of Wendel's multiplier theorem to replace Torgersen's approach which is based on disintegration of a bounded linear operator from L1(G) into C(G)* for G σ-finite (cf. [5], VI.8.6). The writer claims no particular competence in mathematical statistics, but hopes that the discussion of the above result from the “harmonic analysis” perspective may prove illuminating.

We then investigate a similar issue for discrete semigroups. A set of transition operators, which reduce to multipliers in the group case, is introduced, and a semigroup version of Torgersen's theorem is established.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , 01 February 1983 , pp. 49 - 58
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1983

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