Texas A&M University, Department of
Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 13th and 20th of September 2005, 3:00-3:50
Groups and Dynamics Seminar
Amenability versus
Unitarizability
Gilles Pisier of Texas A&M
University
The two talks will present the author's partial results on the Dixmier
problem whether all unitarizable groups are amenable. We will survey
what is known and describe the proof that if the quantitative control
of the unitarizability is sufficient then the answer is positive.