Uniqueness of invariant means on certain introverted spaces

Abstract

Let S be a topological semigroup with separately continuous multiplication and H a uniformly closed invariant subspace of LUC(S) (the space of left uniformly continuous bounded functions on S ) that contains the constants. It is shown that if H is left introverted and H admits a tight two-sided invariant mean m, then for each h ∈ H, m(h) is the unique constant function in the norm closed convex hull of the left orbit of h; consequently, H has a unique left invariant mean. (In fact, it is enough for H to admit a tight right invariant mean and a left invariant mean. ) For certain S, a similar result is obtained when H is a left compact-open introverted subspace of LCC(S) (the space of left compact-open continuous functions on S ).