LIE-TYPE DERIVATIONS OF NEST ALGEBRAS ON BANACH SPACES AND RELATED TOPICS

Let $\mathcal {X}$ be a Banach space over the complex field $\mathbb {C}$ and $\mathcal {B(X)}$ be the algebra of all bounded linear operators on $\mathcal {X}$ . Let $\mathcal {N}$ be a nontrivial nest on $\mathcal {X}$ , $\text {Alg}\mathcal {N}$ be the nest algebra associated with $\mathcal {N}$ , and $L\colon \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}\longrightarrow \mathcal {B(X)}$ be a linear mapping. Suppose that $p_n(x_1,x_2,\ldots ,x_n)$ is an $(n-1)\,$ th commutator defined by n indeterminates $x_1, x_2, \ldots , x_n$ . It is shown that L satisfies the rule $$ \begin{align*}L(p_n(A_1, A_2, \ldots, A_n))=\sum_{k=1}^{n}p_n(A_1, \ldots, A_{k-1}, L(A_k), A_{k+1}, \ldots, A_n) \end{align*} $$ for all $A_1, A_2, \ldots , A_n\in \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}$ if and only if there exist a linear derivation $D\colon \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}\longrightarrow \mathcal {B(X)}$ and a linear mapping $H\colon \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}\longrightarrow \mathbb {C}I$ vanishing on each $(n-1)\,$ th commutator $p_n(A_1,A_2,\ldots , A_n)$ for all $A_1, A_2, \ldots , A_n\in \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}$ such that $L(A)=D(A)+H(A)$ for all $A\in \text {Alg}\mathcal {N}$ . We also propose some related topics for future research.

Generalized Jordan N-Derivations of Unital Algebras with Idempotents

Let A be a unital algebra with idempotent e over a 2-torsionfree unital commutative ring ℛ and S : A ⟶ A be an arbitrary generalized Jordan n-derivation associated with a Jordan n-derivation J . We show that, under mild conditions, every generalized Jordan n-derivation S : A ⟶ A is of the form S x = λ x + J x in the current work. As an application, we give a description of generalized Jordan derivations for the condition n = 2 on classical examples of unital algebras with idempotents: triangular algebras, matrix algebras, nest algebras, and algebras of all bounded linear operators, which generalize some known results.

On the primitive ideals of nest algebras

We show that Ringrose's diagonal ideals are primitive ideals in a nest algebra (subject to the continuum hypothesis). This answers an old question of Lance and provides for the first time concrete descriptions of enough primitive ideals to obtain the Jacobson radical as their intersection. Separately, we provide a standard form for all left ideals of a nest algebra, which leads to insights into the maximal left ideals. In the case of atomic nest algebras, we show how primitive ideals can be categorized by their behaviour on the diagonal and provide concrete examples of all types.

Left Derivable Maps at Non-Trivial Idempotents on Nest Algebras

Let Alg 𝒩 be a nest algebra associated with the nest 𝒩 on a (real or complex) Banach space 𝕏. Suppose that there exists a non-trivial idempotent P ∈ Alg 𝒩 with range P (𝕏) ∈ 𝒩, and δ : Alg 𝒩 → Alg 𝒩 is a continuous linear mapping (generalized) left derivable at P, i.e. δ (ab) = aδ (b) + bδ (a) (δ (ab) = aδ(b) + bδ(a) − baδ(I)) for any a, b ∈ Alg 𝒩 with ab = P, where I is the identity element of Alg 𝒩. We show that is a (generalized) Jordan left derivation. Moreover, in a strongly operator topology we characterize continuous linear maps on some nest algebras Alg 𝒩 with the property that δ (P ) = 2Pδ (P ) or δ (P ) = 2P δ (P ) − Pδ (I) for every idempotent P in Alg 𝒩.