WEAK AMENABILITY OF CONVOLUTION BANACH ALGEBRAS ON COMPACT HYPERGROUPS

In this paper we find necessary and sufficient conditions for weak amenability of the convolution Banach algebras A(K) and $L^2(K)$ for a compact hypergroup K, together with their applications to convolution Banach algebras $L^p(K)$ ($2\;{\leq}\;p\;<\;{\infty}$). It will further be shown that the convolution Banach algebra A(G) for a compact group G is weakly amenable if and only if G has a closed abelian subgroup of finite index.