scholarly journals Bundles of Banach algebras

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-680
Author(s):  
J. W. Kitchen ◽  
D. A. Robbins

We study bundles of Banach algebrasπ:A→X, where each fiberAx=π−1({x})is a Banach algebra andXis a compact Hausdorff space. In the case where all fibers are commutative, we investigate how the Gelfand representation of the section space algebraΓ(π)relates to the Gelfand representation of the fibers. In the general case, we investigate how adjoining an identity to the bundleπ:A→Xrelates to the standard adjunction of identities to the fibers.

2010 ◽  
Vol 88 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. ALBIAC ◽  
E. BRIEM

AbstractA commutative complex unital Banach algebra can be represented as a space of continuous complex-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff space via the Gelfand transform. However, in general it is not possible to represent a commutative real unital Banach algebra as a space of continuous real-valued functions on some compact Hausdorff space, and for this to happen some additional conditions are needed. In this note we represent a commutative real Banach algebra on a part of its state space and show connections with representations on the maximal ideal space of the algebra (whose existence one has to prove first).


1973 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Thompson ◽  
M. S. Vijayakumar

Let A be a complex Banach algebra with unit e of norm one. We show that A can be represented on a compact Hausdorff space ω which arises entirely out of the algebraic and norm structures of A. This space induces an order structure on A that is preserved by the representation. In the commutative case, ω is the spectrum of A, and we have a generalization of Gelfand's representation theorem for commutative complex Banach algebras with unit. Various aspects of this representation are illustrated by considering algebras of n × n complex matrices.


1996 ◽  
Vol 120 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-708
Author(s):  
Volker Runde

The long open problem raised by I. Kaplansky if, for an infinite compact Hausdorff space X, there is a discontinuous homomorphism from (X) into a Banach algebra was settled in the 1970s, independently, by H. G. Dales and J. Esterle. If the continuum hypothesis is assumed, then there is a discontinuous homomorphism from (X) (see [8] for a survey of both approaches and [9] for a unified exposition). The techniques developed by Dales and Esterle are powerful enough to yield discontinuous homomorphisms from commutative Banach algebras other than (X). In fact, every commutative Banach algebra with infinitely many characters is the domain of a discontinuous homomorphism ([7]).


2013 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
AZADEH NIKOU ◽  
ANTHONY G. O'FARRELL

AbstractWe introduce the concept of an E-valued function algebra, a type of Banach algebra that consists of continuous E-valued functions on some compact Hausdorff space, where E is a Banach algebra. We present some basic results about such algebras, having to do with the Shilov boundary and the set of peak points of some commutative E-valued function algebras. We give some specific examples.


1994 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. 201-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
HERBERT KAMOWITZ ◽  
STEPHEN SCHEINBERG

Many commutative semisimple Banach algebras B including B = C (X), X compact, and B = L1 (G), G locally compact, have the property that every homomorphism from B into C1[0, 1] is compact. In this paper we consider this property for uniform algebras. Several examples of homomorphisms from somewhat complicated algebras of analytic functions to C1[0, 1] are shown to be compact. This, together with the fact that every homomorphism from the disc algebra and from the algebra H∞ (∆), ∆ = unit disc, to C1[0, 1] is compact, led to the conjecture that perhaps every homomorphism from a uniform algebra into C1[0, 1] is compact. The main result to which we devote the second half of this paper, is to construct a compact Hausdorff space X, a uniformly closed subalgebra [Formula: see text] of C (X), and an arc ϕ: [0, 1] → X such that the transformation T defined by Tf = f ◦ ϕ is a (bounded) homomorphism of [Formula: see text] into C1[0, 1] which is not compact.


1992 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Gorkin ◽  
Keiji Izuchi ◽  
Raymond Mortini

Let A be a Banach algebra and let B be a linear subspace of A. Recall that A has the Dunford Pettis property if whenever ƒn→ 0 weakly in A* and φn → 0 weakly in A* then φn(ƒn) → 0. Bourgain showed that H∞ has the Dunford Pettis property using the theory of ultraproducts. The Dunford Pettis property is related to the notion of Bourgain algebra, denoted Bb, introduced by [6] Cima and Timoney. The algebra Bb is the set of ƒ in A such that if ƒn → 0 weakly in B then dist(ƒƒn, B) —> 0. Bourgain showed [2] that a closed subspace X of C(L)y where L is a compact Hausdorff space, has the Dunford Pettis property if Xb — C(L). Cima and Timoney proved that Bb is a closed subalgebra of A and that if B is an algebra then B⊂Bb. In this paper we study the Bourgain algebra associated with various algebras of functions on the unit circle T.


2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-141
Author(s):  
Terje Hill ◽  
David A. Robbins

Let X be a compact Hausdorff space, and let {Ax : x ∈ X} and {Bx : x ∈ X} be collections of Banach algebras such that each Ax is a Bx-bimodule. Using the theory of bundles of Banach spaces as a tool, we investigate the module amenability of certain algebras of Ax-valued functions on X over algebras of Bx-valued functions on X.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
A. ZIVARI-KAZEMPOUR ◽  

In this paper we show that the Banach algebra C0(X), where X is a locally compact Hausdorff space, is generated by idempotents if and only if X is totally disconnected.


1978 ◽  
Vol 30 (01) ◽  
pp. 66-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernst August Behrens

A Banach algebra P over C with identity element is called an N-algebra if any closed ideal in P is the intersection of maximal ideals. An example is given by the algebra of the continuous C-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff space X under the supremum norm; two others are discussed in § 3.


1978 ◽  
Vol 30 (03) ◽  
pp. 490-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Farnum ◽  
Robert Whitley

The maximal ideals in a commutative Banach algebra with identity have been elegantly characterized [5; 6] as those subspaces of codimension one which do not contain invertible elements. Also, see [1]. For a function algebra A, a closed separating subalgebra with constants of the algebra of complex-valued continuous functions on the spectrum of A, a compact Hausdorff space, this characterization can be restated: Let F be a linear functional on A with the property: (*) For each ƒ in A there is a point s, which may depend on f, for which F(f) = f(s).


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