p-Pseudomeasures and closed subgroups

LetPM _p (G) be the space of allp-pseudomeasures on a locally compact groupG. We show the existence of a conditional expectation fromPM _p (G) ontoPM _p (H) whereH is a closed normal subgroup ofG. As an application we give a new proof of the fact thatH is a set ofp-synthesis inG; we also get an inequality involving the operator norm of bounded measures onG. Moreover, in analogy with a theorem of Reiter, we obtain a result concerning the closed ideals of the Figà-Talamanca Herz algebra ofG.