Abstract:
We study the amenability property for the group $\mathcal{J}(\mathbf{k})$ of
formal power series in one variable with coefficients in a commutative
ring $\mathbf{k}$ with identity. We show that there exists an invariant
mean on the space $C_{\mathrm{u}}^*(\mathcal{J}(\mathbf{k}))$ of uniformly
continuous bounded functions on this group. This is equivalent to the fact
that every continuous action of $\mathcal{J}(\mathbf{k})$ on every compact
space has an invariant probability measure.
Keywords:topological group, group action, invariant mean.