Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 ; Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Abstract:
In this paper we show that if is an amenable locally compact group and if is a closed subgroup, then the ideal has an approximate identity of norm If is not open, this bound is the best possible.