Amenable Banach algebra

A Banach algebra, A, is amenable if all bounded derivations from A into dual Banach A-bimodules are inner (that is of the form a\mapsto a.x-x.a for some x in the dual module).

An equivalent characterization is that A is amenable if and only if it has a virtual diagonal.

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