Coamenability of type I locally compact quantum groups

Abstract

We establish two conditions equivalent to coamenability for type I locally compact quantum groups. The first condition is concerned with the spectra of certain convolution operators on the space $\operatorname{L}^2(\operatorname{Irr}(\mathbb{G}))$ of functions which are square integrable with respect to the Plancherel measure. The second condition involves spectra of character-like operators associated with direct integrals of irreducible representations. As examples we study special classes of quantum groups: classical, dual to classical, compact or given by a certain bicrossed product construction.