On some special measures on βG

LetG be a discrete abelian group,Ĝ the character group ofG, andl ^∞(G)^* the conjugate ofl ^∞(G) equipped with an Arens product. In many cases, we can find unitary functionsf such that χf is almost convergent to zero for all χ∈Ĝ. Some of these functions are then used to produce elements μ∈l ^∞(G)^* such that γμ=0 whenever γ is an annihilator ofC ₀(G). Regarded as Borel measures on βG, these elements satisfyxμ=0 for allx∈βG/G. They belong to the radical ofl ^∞(G)^*, and each of them generates a left ideal ofl ^∞(G)^* that contains no minimal left ideal.