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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2018
We consider the unital Banach algebra $\ell ^{1}(\mathbb{Z}_{+})$ and prove directly, without using cyclic cohomology, that the simplicial cohomology groups
${\mathcal{H}}^{n}(\ell ^{1}(\mathbb{Z}_{+}),\ell ^{1}(\mathbb{Z}_{+})^{\ast })$ vanish for all
$n\geqslant 2$. This proceeds via the introduction of an explicit bounded linear operator which produces a contracting homotopy for
$n\geqslant 2$. This construction is generalised to unital Banach algebras
$\ell ^{1}({\mathcal{S}})$, where
${\mathcal{S}}={\mathcal{G}}\cap \mathbb{R}_{+}$ and
${\mathcal{G}}$ is a subgroup of
$\mathbb{R}_{+}$.
This work was partially supported by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.