Corona theorem for strictly pseudoconvex domains

Nearly 60 years have passed since Lennart Carleson gave his proof of Corona Theorem for unit disc in the complex plane. It was only recently that M. Kosiek and K. Rudol obtained the first positive result for Corona Theorem in multidimensional case. Using duality methods for uniform algebras the authors proved "abstract" Corona Theorem which allowed to solve Corona Problem for a wide class of regular domains. In this paper we expand Corona Theorem to strictly pseudoconvex domains with smooth boundaries.

A SPHERICAL VERSION OF THE KOWALSKI–SŁODKOWSKI THEOREM AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Li et al. [‘Weak 2-local isometries on uniform algebras and Lipschitz algebras’, Publ. Mat.63 (2019), 241–264] generalized the Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem by establishing the following spherical variant: let A be a unital complex Banach algebra and let $\Delta : A \to \mathbb {C}$ be a mapping satisfying the following properties: (a) $\Delta $ is 1-homogeneous (that is, $\Delta (\lambda x)=\lambda \Delta (x)$ for all $x \in A$ , $\lambda \in \mathbb C$ ); (b) $\Delta (x)-\Delta (y) \in \mathbb {T}\sigma (x-y), \quad x,y \in A$ . Then $\Delta $ is linear and there exists $\lambda _{0} \in \mathbb {T}$ such that $\lambda _{0}\Delta $ is multiplicative. In this note we prove that if (a) is relaxed to $\Delta (0)=0$ , then $\Delta $ is complex-linear or conjugate-linear and $\overline {\Delta (\mathbf {1})}\Delta $ is multiplicative. We extend the Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem as a conclusion. As a corollary, we prove that every 2-local map in the set of all surjective isometries (without assuming linearity) on a certain function space is in fact a surjective isometry. This gives an affirmative answer to a problem on 2-local isometries posed by Molnár [‘On 2-local *-automorphisms and 2-local isometries of B(H)', J. Math. Anal. Appl.479(1) (2019), 569–580] and also in a private communication between Molnár and O. Hatori, 2018.