Research Article
On Some Homological Properties of Hypergroup Algebras with
Relation to Their Character Spaces
Amir Sahami ,
1
Mehdi Rostami,
2
Seyedeh Fatemeh Shariati,
2
and Salman Babayi
3
1
Department of Mathematics Faculty of Basic Science, Ilam University, P.O. Box 69315-516, Ilam, Iran
2
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
3
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
Correspondence should be addressed to Amir Sahami; a.sahami@ilam.ac.ir
Received 25 October 2021; Revised 8 December 2021; Accepted 6 January 2022; Published 29 January 2022
Academic Editor: Ralf Meyer
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In this paper, we study the notion of approximate biprojectivity and left φ-biprojectivity of some Banach algebras, where φ is a
character. Indeed, we show that approximate biprojectivity of the hypergroup algebra L
1
(K) implies that K is compact. Moreover,
we investigate left φ-biprojectivity of certain hypergroup algebras, namely, abstract Segal algebras. As a main result, we conclude
that (with some mild conditions) the abstract Segal algebra B is left φ-biprojective if and only if K is compact, where K is a
hypergroup. We also study the approximate biflatness and left φ-biflatness of hypergroup algebras in terms of amenability of their
related hypergroups.
1. Introduction and Preliminaries
Hypergroups are a suitable generalization of classical locally
compact groups. In classical setting, the convolution of two
point mass measures is a point mass measure, while in
hypergroup structure, the convolution of two point mass
measures is a probability measure with compact support.
e study of hypergroups was initiated in the 1970s by
Dunkl [1], Jewwet [2], and Spector [3], each of them in
various axioms. However, in this paper, we will base our
work on Jewett’s axioms in [2].
Biprojectivity is an important homological notion that
arises naturally in Helemskii’s works in the 1980s; interested
readers can refer to his comprehensive book [4]. Bipro-
jectivity of some well-known Banach algebras associated to
locally compact groups, such as group algebras and measure
algebras, is studied in [4, 5]. Biprojectivity of the hypergroup
algebra L
1
(K) is studied in [6]. As a generalization of this
notion, Y. Zhang in [7] introduced the notion of approxi-
mate biprojectivity. Indeed, a Banach algebra A is called
approximately biprojective if there exists a net (ρ
α
) of
continuous A-bimodule morphism from A into A
∧
⊗ A such
that π
A
°
ρ
α
(a) ⟶ a for every a ∈ A, where
π
A
: A
∧
⊗ A ⟶ A is the diagonal operator defined by
π
A
(a ⊗ b)� ab. For recent works about this concept, refer to
[8].
roughout the paper, Δ(A) stands for the set of all
nonzero multiplicative linear functionals on A.Kaniuthetal.
[9] introduced the notion of left φ-amenable Banach alge-
bras (φ ∈Δ(A)) as a generalization of the notion of ame-
nable Banach algebras introduced by Johnson in [10]. A
Banach algebra A is called left φ-amenable if every derivation
D from A into X
∗
is inner, for every Banach A-bimodule X
with the left module action a · x � φ(a)x for all a ∈ A and
x ∈ X.
Hu et al. in [11] defined the notion of left φ-contract-
ibility for Banach algebras. Following [12], a Banach algebra
A is called left φ-contractible, where φ ∈Δ(A), if there exists
m ∈ A such that am � φ(a)m and φ(m)� 1, for every
a ∈ A. For a locally compact group G, it is shown that left
φ-contractibility of L
1
(G) (or M(G)) is equivalent to
compactness of G (eorem 6.1 in [15]).
Motivated by these considerations, the first author de-
fined the homological notion of left φ-biprojectivity for
Banach algebras (see, e.g., [13]). Here is the definition of his
new notion. A Banach algebra A is called left φ-biprojective,
Hindawi
Journal of Mathematics
Volume 2022, Article ID 4939971, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/4939971