We consider the quantization of inversion in commutative p-normed quasi-Banach algebras with unit. The standard questions considered for such an algebra A with unit e and Gelfand transform x ↦ x̂ are: (i) Is $K_{\nu }=sup{\left|\right|(e-x)}^{-1}{\left|\right|}_p{:x\in A,\left|\right|x\left|\right|}_p\le 1,max\left|x̂\right|\le \nu$ bounded, where ν ∈ (0,1)? (ii) For which δ ∈ (0,1) is $C_{\delta }=sup\left|\right|x^{-1}{\left|\right|}_p{:x\in A,\left|\right|x\left|\right|}_p\le 1,min\left|x̂\right|\ge \delta$ bounded? Both questions are related to a “uniform spectral radius” of the algebra, $r_{\infty }\left(A\right)$, introduced by Björk. Question (i) has an affirmative answer if and only if $r_{\infty }\left(A\right)<1$, and this result is extended to more general nonlinear extremal problems...

A group acting on a measure space (X,β,λ) may or may not admit a cyclic vector in $L_{\infty }\left(X\right)$. This can occur when the acting group is as big as the group of all measure-preserving transformations. But it does not occur, even though there is no cardinality obstruction to it, for the regular action of a group on itself. The connection of cyclic vectors to the uniqueness of invariant means is also discussed.

Étude des propriétés des unions et intersections d’espaces $L^p\left(s\right)$ relatifs à un ensemble $S$ de mesures positives sur un groupe commutatif localement compact lorsque $S$ est invariant par translation ou stable par convolution.Dans des cas particuliers, on retrouve les propriétés d’espaces étudiés par A. Beurling et par B. Koremblium.On étudie aussi les espaces ${\ell }^p(L^{p^{\text{'}}})$ formés des fonctions appartenant localement à $L^{p^{\text{'}}}$ et qui ont un comportement ${\ell }^p$ à l’infini.

We prove that every quotient algebra of a unital Banach function algebra A has a unique complete norm if A is a Ditkin algebra. The theorem applies, for example, to the algebra A (Γ) of Fourier transforms of the group algebra $L^1\left(G\right)$ of a locally compact abelian group (with identity adjoined if Γ is not compact). In such algebras non-semisimple quotients $A\left(\Gamma \right)/\overline{J\left(E\right)}$ arise from closed subsets E of Γ which are sets of non-synthesis. Examples are given to show that the condition of Ditkin cannot be relaxed. We construct...

Let G be a locally compact abelian group and let X be a translation invariant linear subspace of L¹(G). If G is noncompact, then there is at most one Banach space topology on X that makes translations on X continuous. In fact, the Banach space topology on X is determined just by a single nontrivial translation in the case where the dual group Ĝ is connected. For G compact we show that the problem of determining a Banach space topology on X by considering translation operators on X is closely related...