Pointwise amenability for dual Banach algebras

Abstract: We shall develop two notions of pointwise amenability, namely pointwise Connes amenability and pointwise $w^*$-approximate Connes amenability, for dual Banach algebras which take the $w^*$-topology into account. We shall study these concepts for the Banach sequence algebras $\ell^1(\omega)$ and the weighted semigroup algebras $ \ell^{1}(\mathbb{N}_{\wedge},\omega)$. For a weight $\omega$ on a discrete semigroup $S$, we shall investigate pointwise amenability/Connes amenability of $\ell^1(S,\omega)$ in terms of diagonals.