%0 Journal Article
%T Invariant expectations and vanishing of bounded cohomology for exact groups
%A Ronald G. Douglas
%A Piotr W. Nowak
%J Mathematics
%D 2010
%I arXiv
%R 10.1142/S1793525311000489
%X We study exactness of groups and establish a characterization of exact groups in terms of the existence of a continuous linear operator, called an invariant expectation, whose properties make it a weak counterpart of an invariant mean on a group. We apply this operator to show that exactness of a finitely generated group $G$ implies the vanishing of the bounded cohomology of $G$ with coefficients in a new class of modules, which are defined using the Hopf algebra structure of $\ell_1(G)$.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1001.0718v5