The purpose of this paper is to give a survey on some recent results concerning spectral analysis and spectral synthesis in the framework of vector modules and in close connection with the Levi-Civita functional equation. Further, we present some open problems in this subject.
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 of a locally compact abelian group (with identity adjoined if Γ is not compact). In such algebras non-semisimple quotients 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 group, K a compact subgroup of G and A(G/K) the Fourier algebra of the coset space G/K. Applying results from [E. Kaniuth, Weak spectral synthesis in commutative Banach algebras, J. Funct. Anal. 254 (2008), 987-1002], we establish injection and localization theorems relating weak spectral sets and weak Ditkin sets for A(G/K) to such sets for A(H/H ∩ K), where H is a closed subgroup of G. We also prove some results towards the analogue of Malliavin's theorem for weak spectral...