Normalized counting measures on a Følner sequence have a convergent subnet in the compact product . The limit is a left-invariant finitely additive probability measure, so every group satisfying the Følner condition is an amenable group.
The intervals form a Følner sequence for the additive group , because
For a finite generating set , the Følner condition requires that for every there be a nonempty finite such that
where denotes symmetric difference. Choose a Følner sequence and define normalized counting functions on all subsets by
By compactness of the product , some subnet converges pointwise to a function . The identities and finite additivity on disjoint subsets pass to the limit, so is a finitely additive probability measure.
For a fixed , the triangle inequality for symmetric differences gives
Consequently
so . The limit is left invariant and the Følner condition implies amenability. Thus every finitely generated group satisfying the Følner condition is amenable.